[ClusterLabs] Howto stonith in the case of any interface failure?

[Kadlecsik József]

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Jan Pokorný wrote:

> On 09/10/19 09:58 +0200, Kadlecsik József wrote:
> > The nodes in our cluster have got backend and frontend interfaces: the 
> > former ones are for the storage and cluster (corosync) traffic and the 
> > latter ones are for the public services of KVM guests only.
> > 
> > One of the nodes has got a failure ("watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7 
> > stuck for 23s"), which resulted that the node could process traffic on the 
> > backend interface but not on the fronted one. Thus the services became 
> > unavailable but the cluster thought the node is all right and did not 
> > stonith it. 
> 
> > Which is the best way to solve the problem? 
> 
> Looks like heuristics of corosync-qdevice that would ping/attest your
> frontend interface could be a way to go.  You'd need an additional
> host in your setup, though.

As far as I see, corosync-qdevice can add/increase the votes for a node 
and cannot decrease it. I hope I'm wrong, I wouldn't mind adding an 
additional host :-)

Best regards,
Jozsef
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