[ClusterLabs] meatware stonith

[Digimer]

On 2018-09-26 11:11 AM, Patrick Whitney wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm doing some pacemaker/corosync/dlm/clvm testing.  I'm without a power
> fencing solution at the moment, so I wanted to utilize meatware, but it
> doesn't show when I list available stonith devices (pcs stonith list).
> 
> I do seem to have it on the system, as cluster-glue is installed, and I
> see meatware.so and meatclient on the system, and I also see meatware
> listed when running the command 'stonith -L' 
> 
> Can anyone guide me as to how to create a stonith meatware resource
> using pcs? 
> 
> Best,
> -Pat

The "fence_manual" agent was removed after EL5 days, a loooong time ago,
because it so often led to split-brains because of misuse. Manual
fencing is NOT recommended.

There are new options, like SBD (storage-based death) if you have a
watchdog timer.

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