[ClusterLabs] Antw: [EXT] Re: Format of '--lifetime' in 'pcs resource move'

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> schrieb am 20.08.2020 um 18:25 in
Nachricht <329B5D02-2BCB-4A2C-BC2B-CA3030E6A3B7 at yahoo.com>:
> Have you tried ISO 8601 format.
> For example: 'PT20M' 

And watch out not to mix Minutes wth Months ;-)

> 
> The  ISo format  is described at:  
> https://manpages.debian.org/testing/crmsh/crm.8.en.html 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
> 
> На 20 август 2020 г. 13:40:16 GMT+03:00, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> написа:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>  Reading the pcs man page for the 'move' action, it talks about
>>'--lifetime' switch that appears to control when the location
>>constraint
>>is removed;
>>
>>====
>>       move   <resource   id>  [destination  node]  [--master]  [life‐
>>       time=<lifetime>] [--wait[=n]]
>>              Move the resource off the node it is  currently  running
>>              on  by  creating  a -INFINITY location constraint to ban
>>              the node. If destination node is specified the  resource
>>              will be moved to that node by creating an INFINITY loca‐
>>              tion constraint  to  prefer  the  destination  node.  If
>>              --master  is used the scope of the command is limited to
>>              the master role and you must use the promotable clone id
>>              (instead  of  the resource id). If lifetime is specified
>>              then the constraint will expire after that time,  other‐
>>              wise  it  defaults to infinity and the constraint can be
>>              cleared manually with 'pcs resource clear' or 'pcs  con‐
>>              straint  delete'.  If --wait is specified, pcs will wait
>>              up to 'n' seconds for the  resource  to  move  and  then
>>              return  0 on success or 1 on error. If 'n' is not speci‐
>>              fied it defaults to 60 minutes. If you want the resource
>>              to preferably avoid running on some nodes but be able to
>>              failover to them use 'pcs constraint location avoids'.
>>====
>>
>>I think I want to use this, as we move resources manually for various
>>reasons where the old host is still able to host the resource should a
>>node failure occur. So we'd love to immediately remove the location
>>constraint as soon as the move completes.
>>
>>I tries using '--lifetime=60' as a test, assuming the format was
>>'seconds', but that was invalid. How is this switch meant to be used?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>-- 
>>Digimer
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>>have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay
>>Gould
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