[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: question about ocf metadata actions

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Kristoffer Grönlund <kgronlund at suse.com> schrieb am 30.03.2017 um 13:43 in
Nachricht <87o9wjm1lw.fsf at suse.com>:
> he.hailong5 at zte.com.cn writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Does the timeout configured in the ocf metadata actually take effect?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ＜actions＞
>>
>>     ＜action name="start" timeout="300s" /＞
>>
>>     ＜action name="stop" timeout="200s" /＞
>>
>>     ＜action name="status" timeout="20s" /＞
>>
>>     ＜action name="monitor" depth="0" timeout="20s" interval="2s" /＞
>>
>>     ＜action name="meta-data" timeout="120s" /＞
>>
>>     ＜action name="validate-all"  timeout="20s" /＞
>>
>> ＜/actions＞
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> what's the relationship with the ones configured using "crm configure 
> primitive" ?
> 
> Hi Allen,
> 
> The timeouts in the OCF metadata are merely documentation hints, and
> ignored by Pacemaker unless configured appropriately in the CIB (which
> is what crm configure primitive does). See the OCF documentation:

I thought the hierarchy is like this:
1) default timeout
2) RA's default timeout
3) user-specified timeout

So crm would go from 1) to 3) taking the last value it finds. Isn't it like
that?
I mean if there's no timeout in the resource cnfiguration, doesn't the RM use
the default timeout?

Regards,
Ulrich

> 
> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/resource-agents/blob/master/doc/dev-guides/ra

> -dev-guide.asc#_metadata
> 
>> Every action should list its own timeout value. This is a hint to the
>> user what minimal timeout should be configured for the action. This is
>> meant to cater for the fact that some resources are quick to start and
>> stop (IP addresses or filesystems, for example), some may take several
>> minutes to do so (such as databases).
> 
>> In addition, recurring actions (such as monitor) should also specify a
>> recommended minimum interval, which is the time between two
>> consecutive invocations of the same action. Like timeout, this value
>> does not constitute a default— it is merely a hint for the user which
>> action interval to configure, at minimum.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kristoffer
> 
>>
>> Br,
>>
>> Allen
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