[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: Notification agent and Notification recipients

Ken Gaillot kgaillot at redhat.com
Tue Aug 8 16:59:15 CEST 2017


On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 17:40 +0530, Sriram wrote:
> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> 
> Please see inline.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Ulrich Windl
> <Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
>         >>> Sriram <sriram.ec at gmail.com> schrieb am 08.08.2017 um
>         09:30 in Nachricht
>         <CAMvdjurcQc6t=ZfGr=cRL25Xq0Je9h9F_TvZXyxVAn3n
>         +Dvcgw at mail.gmail.com>:
>         > Hi Ken & Jan,
>         >
>         > In the cluster we have, there is only one resource running.
>         Its a OPT-IN
>         > cluster with resource-stickiness set to INFINITY.
>         >
>         > Just to clarify my question, lets take a scenario where
>         there are four
>         > nodes N1, N2, N3, N4
>         > a. N1 comes up first, starts the cluster.
>         
>         The cluster will start once it has a quorum.
>         
>         > b. N1 Checks that there is no resource running, so it will
>         add the
>         > resource(R) with the some location constraint(lets say score
>         100)
>         > c. So Resource(R) runs in N1 now.
>         > d. N2 comes up next, checks that resource(R) is already
>         running in N1, so
>         > it will update the location constraint(lets say score 200)
>         > e. N3 comes up next, checks that resource(R) is already
>         running in N1, so
>         > it will update the location constraint(lets say score 300)
>         
>         See my remark on quorum above.
>         
> Yes you are right, I forgot to mention it. 
> 
> 
>         > f.  N4 comes up next, checks that resource(R) is already
>         running in N1, so
>         > it will update the location constraint(lets say score 400)
>         > g. For the some reason, if N1 goes down, resource(R) shifts
>         to N4(as its
>         > score is higher than anyone).
>         >
>         > In this case is it possible to notify the nodes N2, N3 that
>         newly elected
>         > active node is N4 ?
>         
>         What type of notification, and what would the node do with it?
>         Any node in the cluster always has up to date configuration
>         information. So it knows the status of the other nodes also.
> 
> 
> I agree that the node always has upto date configuration information,
> but an application or a thread needs to poll for that information. Is
> there any way, where the notifications are received through some
> action function in RA. ?

Ah, I misunderstood your situation, I thought you had a cloned resource.

For that, the alerts feature (available in Pacemaker 1.1.15 and later)
might be useful:

http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1-pcs/html-single/Pacemaker_Explained/index.html#idm139900098676896


> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sriram. 
>         
>         >
>         > I went through clone notifications and master-slave, Iooks
>         like it either
>         > requires identical resources(Anonymous) or Unique or
>         Stateful resources to
>         > be running
>         > in all the nodes of the cluster, where as in our case there
>         is only
>         > resource running in the whole cluster.
>         
>         Maybe the main reason for not having notifications is that if
>         a node fails hard, it won't be able to send out much status
>         information to the other nodes.
>         
>         Regards,
>         Ulrich
>         
>         >
>         > Regards,
>         > Sriram.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Sriram
>         <sriram.ec at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >
>         >>
>         >> Thanks Ken, Jan. Will look into the clone notifications.
>         >>
>         >> Regards,
>         >> Sriram.
>         >>
>         >> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Ken Gaillot
>         <kgaillot at redhat.com> wrote:
>         >>
>         >>> On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 12:31 +0530, Sriram wrote:
>         >>> >
>         >>> > Hi Team,
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> > We have a four node cluster (1 active : 3 standby) in
>         our lab for a
>         >>> > particular service. If the active node goes down, one of
>         the three
>         >>> > standby node  becomes active. Now there will be (1
>         active :  2
>         >>> > standby : 1 offline).
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> > Is there any way where this newly elected node sends
>         notification to
>         >>> > the remaining 2 standby nodes about its new status ?
>         >>>
>         >>> Hi Sriram,
>         >>>
>         >>> This depends on how your service is configured in the
>         cluster.
>         >>>
>         >>> If you have a clone or master/slave resource, then clone
>         notifications
>         >>> is probably what you want (not alerts, which is the path
>         you were going
>         >>> down -- alerts are designed to e.g. email a system
>         administrator after
>         >>> an important event).
>         >>>
>         >>> For details about clone notifications, see:
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1-pcs/html-sing
>         >>>
>         le/Pacemaker_Explained/index.html#_clone_resource_agent_requirements
>         >>>
>         >>> The RA must support the "notify" action, which will be
>         called when a
>         >>> clone instance is started or stopped. See the similar
>         section later for
>         >>> master/slave resources for additional information. See the
>         mysql or
>         >>> pgsql resource agents for examples of notify
>         implementations.
>         >>>
>         >>> > I was exploring "notification agent" and "notification
>         recipient"
>         >>> > features, but that doesn't seem to
>         work. /etc/sysconfig/notify.sh
>         >>> > doesn't get invoked even in the newly elected active
>         node.
>         >>>
>         >>> Yep, that's something different altogether -- it's only
>         enabled on RHEL
>         >>> systems, and solely for backward compatibility with an
>         early
>         >>> implementation of the alerts interface. The new alerts
>         interface is more
>         >>> flexible, but it's not designed to send information
>         between cluster
>         >>> nodes -- it's designed to send information to something
>         external to the
>         >>> cluster, such as a human, or an SNMP server, or a
>         monitoring system.
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>> > Cluster Properties:
>         >>> >  cluster-infrastructure: corosync
>         >>> >  dc-version: 1.1.17-e2e6cdce80
>         >>> >  default-action-timeout: 240
>         >>> >  have-watchdog: false
>         >>> >  no-quorum-policy: ignore
>         >>> >  notification-agent: /etc/sysconfig/notify.sh
>         >>> >  notification-recipient: /var/log/notify.log
>         >>> >  placement-strategy: balanced
>         >>> >  stonith-enabled: false
>         >>> >  symmetric-cluster: false
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> > I m using the following versions of pacemaker and
>         corosync.
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> > /usr/sbin # ./pacemakerd --version
>         >>> > Pacemaker 1.1.17
>         >>> > Written by Andrew Beekhof
>         >>> > /usr/sbin # ./corosync -v
>         >>> > Corosync Cluster Engine, version '2.3.5'
>         >>> > Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Red Hat, Inc.
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> > Can you please suggest if I m doing anything wrong or if
>         there any
>         >>> > other mechanisms to achieve this ?
>         >>> >
>         >>> >
>         >>> > Regards,
>         >>> > Sriram.

-- 
Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com>







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