[ClusterLabs] Integrate external alerts with pcs cluster

[Strahil Nikolov]

On April 11, 2020 8:16:21 PM GMT+03:00, Ajay Srivastava <ajay_srivastava at rediffmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Strahil,Yes. It's simple but monitoring is done by an external
>service which sends alarm in case state of a hardware changes. It's
>a complex code and multiple devices are being monitored by it. If I ask
>pacemaker to monitor the device, this code has to be replicated in
>resource agent's monitor which is not an option. Instead of that, I
>plan to examine the alert in external service and fail the resource if
>alarm is critical. Hope that it clarifies the scenario.By the way, how
>could I fail the resource from outside. I see that option in
>crm_resource CLI (--fail) but not in pcs CLI.Regards,AjayFrom: Strahil
>Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com>Sent: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:50:25To:
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><users at clusterlabs.org>,Ajay Srivastava
><ajay_srivastava at rediffmail.com>Subject: Re: [ClusterLabs]
>Integrate external alerts with pcs clusterOn April 11, 2020 2:04:23 PM
>GMT+03:00, Ajay Srivastava <ajay_srivastava at rediffmail.com>
>wrote:>Hi,In my environment I have a pacemaker cluster running which
>has>various software services as resource agents.These services
>have>dependency on some hardware components. There is a service
>which>monitors the hardware and sends alerts if anything is wrong
>with the>hardware.My plan is to add a resource agent for each
>hardware component>with proper dependencies and fail this resource
>agent if I get a>critical alert from hardware monitoring service.
>Please note that I do>not want to use monitor functionality of
>resource agent as there is a>service which is already doing same
>thing. I have two queries here -1)>Does the approach look good ? Is
>there a better way to implement it in>pacemaker cluster ?2) I can
>find --fail option in crm_resource but not>in pcs cli. What would be
>the equivalent command in pcs as I am using>pcs cli to configure the
>cluster ?Regards,Ajay&nbsp;Hi Ajay,Sadly I don't get the
>logic.Based  on your  e-mail you want to create a cluster
> resource that will fail based on hardware issue.Yet, are you
>going to put  other cluster resources as a dependency (for example
> -> ordering constraint that stops some  application in
>case some cpu has  stuck for  '120s') ?All the
>cluster  needs  is to know how to:- Start the  resource-
>Monitor  the liveliness  of the resource- Stop the
>resourceBest Regards,Strahil Nikolov

I guess  you can still use '/usr/sbin/crm_resource' as I don't see that option in pcs.

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov