[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: Set a node attribute for multiple nodes with one command

Ken Gaillot kgaillot at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 21:39:27 CET 2016


On 11/30/2016 11:31 AM, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
> I didn't look into the logs, but I experimented with it for a while.
> Here is what I found.
> 
> It worked for you because this attribute - "my-attr" - has not ever been
> set before in that cluster.
> 
> So if you set an attribute, then remove it, and then set it with
> "--delay", like:
> 
>     # attrd_updater -N node-0 -n my-attr --update false --delay 20
> 
> , this delay (dampening) won't work.

Once set, attributes are not truly deleted -- only their values are
cleared. And --delay has no effect with --update if the attribute
already exists, which is what you see above.

To set a delay on an already existing attribute, you have to use
attrd_updater --update-delay or --update-both.

> Moreover, when you delete this attribute the actual remove will be
> delayed by that "--delay" which was used when the attribute was set.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Kostia
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com
> <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/24/2016 05:24 AM, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko wrote:
>     > Attribute dampening doesn't work for me also.
>     > To test that I have a script:
>     >
>     >     attrd_updater -N node-0 -n my-attr --update false --delay 20
>     >     sleep 3
>     >     attrd_updater -N node-0 -n my-attr --update true
>     >     sleep 7
>     >     attrd_updater -N node-1 -n my-attr --update true
> 
>     This sequence works for me -- the attributes are not written to the live
>     CIB until the end of the delay, when both are written at the same time.
> 
>     The remaining issue must be with the policy engine. You could look at
>     the detail log on the DC when these changes were made; you should see
>     info-level messages with the CIB change with both values together (lines
>     with "cib_perform_op:   ++" and the attribute values), then "Transition
>     aborted" with "Transient attribute change", then a bunch of "pengine:"
>     lines saying what the cluster wants to do with each resource.
> 
>     There should be some information about the scores used to place the
>     resources.
> 
>     >
>     > All my resources have this rule in Pacemaker config:
>     >
>     >     crm configure location res1-location-rule res1 \
>     >         rule 0: my-attr eq true \
>     >         rule -inf: my-attr ne true
>     >
>     > On a working two-node cluster I remove "my-attr" from both nodes.
>     > Then run my script. And all resources start on node-0.
>     > Am I doing something wrong?
>     > Or maybe my understanding of an attribute dampening is not correct?
>     >
>     > My Pacemaker version is 1.1.13. (heh, not the last one, but it is what
>     > it is ...)
>     >
>     > Thank you,
>     > Kostia
>     >
>     > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko
>     > <konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com
>     <mailto:konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com
>     <mailto:konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I cannot set "status" section
>     >     node attributes to a shadow cib, cluster applies them immediately.
>     >     To try it out I do in a console:
>     >
>     >         crm_shadow --create test
>     >         crm_attribute --type nodes --node node-0 --name my-attribute
>     >     --update 1 --lifetime=reboot
>     >
>     >     And this attribute is set to the live cluster configuration immediately.
>     >     What am I doing wrong?
>     >
>     >     Thank you,
>     >     Kostia
>     >
>     >     On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko
>     >     <konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com
>     <mailto:konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com>
>     >     <mailto:konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com
>     <mailto:konstantin.ponomarenko at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         Ken,
>     >         Thank you for the explanation.
>     >         I will try this low-level way of shadow cib creation tomorrow.
>     >         PS: I will sleep much better with this excellent news/idea. =)
>     >
>     >         Thank you,
>     >         Kostia
>     >
>     >         On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Ken Gaillot
>     >         <kgaillot at redhat.com <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>
>     <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >             On 11/22/2016 04:39 AM, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko wrote:
>     >             > Using "shadow cib" in crmsh looks like a good idea, but it doesn't work
>     >             > with node attributes set into "status" section of Pacemaker config.
>     >             > I wonder it it is possible to make it work that way.
>     >
>     >             Forgot to mention -- the shadow CIB is probably the best way
>     >             to do this.
>     >             I don't know if there's a way to do it in crmsh, but you can
>     >             use it with
>     >             the low-level commands crm_shadow and crm_attribute
>     >             --lifetime=reboot.
>     >
>     >             > Ken,
>     >             >>> start dampening timer
>     >             > Could you please elaborate more on this. I don't get how I can set this
>     >             > timer.
>     >             > Do I need to set this timer for each node?
>     >             >
>     >             >
>     >             > Thank you,
>     >             > Kostia
>     >             >
>     >             > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Ulrich Windl
>     >             > <Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
>     <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de>
>     >             <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
>     <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de>>
>     >             > <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
>     <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de>
>     >             <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
>     <mailto:Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de>>>> wrote:
>     >             >
>     >             >     >>> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>
>     >             <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com
>     <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>> <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com
>     <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>
>     >             <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com <mailto:kgaillot at redhat.com>>>>
>     >             >     schrieb am 18.11.2016 um 16:17 in Nachricht
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>     >             
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>     <mailto:d6f449da-64f8-12ad-00be-e772d8e382ca at redhat.com>>>>:
>     >             >     > On 11/18/2016 08:55 AM, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko
>     wrote:
>     >             >     >> Hi folks,
>     >             >     >>
>     >             >     >> Is there a way to set a node attribute to the
>     >             "status" section for few
>     >             >     >> nodes at the same time?
>     >             >     >>
>     >             >     >> In my case there is a node attribute which allows
>     >             some resources to
>     >             >     >> start in the cluster if it is set.
>     >             >     >> If I set this node attribute for say two
>     nodes in a
>     >             way - one and then
>     >             >     >> another, than these resources are not distributed
>     >             equally between these
>     >             >     >> two nodes. That because Pacemaker picks the first
>     >             node to with this
>     >             >     >> attribute is set and immediately starts all
>     allowed
>     >             resources on it. And
>     >             >     >> this is not the behavior i would like to get.
>     >             >     >>
>     >             >     >> Thank you,
>     >             >     >> Kostia
>     >             >     >
>     >             >     > Not that I know of, but it would be a good feature
>     >             to add to
>     >             >     > attrd_updater and/or crm_attribute.
>     >             >
>     >             >     With crm (shell) you don't have transactions for
>     node
>     >             attributes,
>     >             >     but for the configuration. So if you add a location
>     >             restriction
>     >             >     preventing any resources on your nodes, then enable
>     >             the nodes, and
>     >             >     then delete the location restrictions in one
>     >             transaction, you might
>     >             >     get what you want. It's not elegant, but itt ill do.
>     >             >
>     >             >     To the crm shell maintainer: Is is difficult to
>     build
>     >             transactions
>     >             >     to node status changes? The problem I see is
>     this: For
>     >             configuration
>     >             >     you always have transactions (requiring
>     "commit), but
>     >             for nodes you
>     >             >     traditionally have non (effects are immediate). So
>     >             you'd need a
>     >             >     thing like "start transaction" which requires a
>     >             "commit" or some
>     >             >     kind of abort later.
>     >             >
>     >             >     I also don't know whether a "shadow CIB" would help
>     >             for the original
>     >             >     problem.
>     >             >
>     >             >     Ulrich
>     >             >
>     >             >     >
>     >             >     > You can probably hack it with a dampening
>     value of a
>     >             few seconds. If
>     >             >     > your rule checks for a particular value of the
>     >             attribute, set all the
>     >             >     > nodes to a different value first, which will write
>     >             that value and
>     >             >     start
>     >             >     > the dampening timer. Then set all the
>     attributes to
>     >             the desired value,
>     >             >     > and they will get written out together when the
>     >             timer expires.



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