[ClusterLabs] Coming in Pacemaker 1.1.17: start a node in standby

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:19:55AM +0200, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> > > > I seem to remember that at some deployment,
> > > > we set the node instance attribute standby=on, always,
> > > > and took it out of standby using the node_state transient_attribute :-)
> > > > 
> > > > As in
> > > > # crm node standby ava

> > > > # crm node status-attr ava set standby off

> > Well, you want the "persistent" setting "on",
> > and override it with a "transient" setting "off".

> Quick questions:
> 
>   * is it what happen in the CIB when you call crm_standby?

crm_standby --node emma --lifetime reboot --update off
crm_standby --node emma --lifetime forever --update on

(or -n -l -v,
default node is current node,
default lifetime is forever)

>   * is it possible to do the opposite? persistent setting "off" and override it
>     with the transient setting?

see above, also man crm_standby,
which again is only a wrapper around crm_attribute.

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