[ClusterLabs] How to unfence without reboot (fence_mpath)

Strahil Nikolov hunter86_bg at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 17 01:39:55 EST 2020


Hello Ondrej,

thanks for your reply. I really appreciate that.

I have picked fence_multipath as I'm preparing for my EX436 and I can't know what agent will be useful on the exam.
Also ,according to https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3201072 , there could be a race condition with fence_scsi.

So, I've checked the cluster when fencing and the node immediately goes offline.
Last messages from pacemaker are:
<snip>
Feb 17 08:21:57 node1.localdomain stonith-ng[23808]:   notice: Client stonith_admin.controld.23888.b57ceee7 wants to fence (reboot) 'node1.localdomain' with device '(any)'
Feb 17 08:21:57 node1.localdomain stonith-ng[23808]:   notice: Requesting peer fencing (reboot) of node1.localdomain
Feb 17 08:21:57 node1.localdomain stonith-ng[23808]:   notice: FENCING can fence (reboot) node1.localdomain (aka. '1'): static-list
Feb 17 08:21:58 node1.localdomain stonith-ng[23808]:   notice: Operation reboot of node1.localdomain by node2.localdomain for stonith_admin.controld.23888 at node1.localdomain.ede38ffb: OK
Feb 17 08:21:58 node1.localdomain crmd[23812]:     crit: We were allegedly just fenced by node2.localdomain for node1.localdomai
<snip>

Which for me means - node1 just got fenced again. Actually fencing works ,as I/O is immediately blocked and the reservation is removed.

I've used https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2766611 to setup the fence_mpath , but I could have messed up something.

Cluster config is:
[root at node3 ~]# pcs config show
Cluster Name: HACLUSTER2
Corosync Nodes:
 node1.localdomain node2.localdomain node3.localdomain
Pacemaker Nodes:
 node1.localdomain node2.localdomain node3.localdomain

Resources:
 Clone: dlm-clone
  Meta Attrs: interleave=true ordered=true
  Resource: dlm (class=ocf provider=pacemaker type=controld)
   Operations: monitor interval=30s on-fail=fence (dlm-monitor-interval-30s)
               start interval=0s timeout=90 (dlm-start-interval-0s)
               stop interval=0s timeout=100 (dlm-stop-interval-0s)
 Clone: clvmd-clone
  Meta Attrs: interleave=true ordered=true
  Resource: clvmd (class=ocf provider=heartbeat type=clvm)
   Operations: monitor interval=30s on-fail=fence (clvmd-monitor-interval-30s)
               start interval=0s timeout=90s (clvmd-start-interval-0s)
               stop interval=0s timeout=90s (clvmd-stop-interval-0s)
 Clone: TESTGFS2-clone
  Meta Attrs: interleave=true
  Resource: TESTGFS2 (class=ocf provider=heartbeat type=Filesystem)
   Attributes: device=/dev/TEST/gfs2 directory=/GFS2 fstype=gfs2 options=noatime run_fsck=no
   Operations: monitor interval=15s on-fail=fence OCF_CHECK_LEVEL=20 (TESTGFS2-monitor-interval-15s)
               notify interval=0s timeout=60s (TESTGFS2-notify-interval-0s)
               start interval=0s timeout=60s (TESTGFS2-start-interval-0s)
               stop interval=0s timeout=60s (TESTGFS2-stop-interval-0s)

Stonith Devices:
 Resource: FENCING (class=stonith type=fence_mpath)
  Attributes: devices=/dev/mapper/36001405cb123d0000000000000000000 pcmk_host_argument=key pcmk_host_map=node1.localdomain:1;node2.localdomain:2;node3.localdomain:3 pcmk_monitor_action=metadata pcmk_reboot_action=off
  Meta Attrs: provides=unfencing
  Operations: monitor interval=60s (FENCING-monitor-interval-60s)
Fencing Levels:

Location Constraints:
Ordering Constraints:
  start dlm-clone then start clvmd-clone (kind:Mandatory) (id:order-dlm-clone-clvmd-clone-mandatory)
  start clvmd-clone then start TESTGFS2-clone (kind:Mandatory) (id:order-clvmd-clone-TESTGFS2-clone-mandatory)
Colocation Constraints:
  clvmd-clone with dlm-clone (score:INFINITY) (id:colocation-clvmd-clone-dlm-clone-INFINITY)
  TESTGFS2-clone with clvmd-clone (score:INFINITY) (id:colocation-TESTGFS2-clone-clvmd-clone-INFINITY)
Ticket Constraints:

Alerts:
 No alerts defined

Resources Defaults:
 No defaults set

[root at node3 ~]# crm_mon -r1
Stack: corosync
Current DC: node3.localdomain (version 1.1.20-5.el7_7.2-3c4c782f70) - partition with quorum
Last updated: Mon Feb 17 08:39:30 2020
Last change: Sun Feb 16 18:44:06 2020 by root via cibadmin on node1.localdomain

3 nodes configured
10 resources configured

Online: [ node2.localdomain node3.localdomain ]
OFFLINE: [ node1.localdomain ]

Full list of resources:

 FENCING        (stonith:fence_mpath):  Started node2.localdomain
 Clone Set: dlm-clone [dlm]
     Started: [ node2.localdomain node3.localdomain ]
     Stopped: [ node1.localdomain ]
 Clone Set: clvmd-clone [clvmd]
     Started: [ node2.localdomain node3.localdomain ]
     Stopped: [ node1.localdomain ]
 Clone Set: TESTGFS2-clone [TESTGFS2]
     Started: [ node2.localdomain node3.localdomain ]
     Stopped: [ node1.localdomain ]




In the logs , I've noticed that the node is first unfenced and later it is fenced again... For the unfence , I believe "meta provides=unfencing" is 'guilty', yet I'm not sure about the action from node2.
So far I have used SCSI reservations only with ServiceGuard, while SBD on SUSE - and I was wondering if the setup is correctly done.
Storage in this test setup is a Highly Available iSCSI Cluster ontop of DRBD /RHEL 7 again/, and it seems that SCSI Reservations Support is OK.


Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov






В неделя, 16 февруари 2020 г., 23:11:40 Гринуич-5, Ondrej <ondrej-clusterlabs at famera.cz> написа: 





Hello Strahil,

On 2/17/20 11:54 AM, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
> Hello Community,
> 
> This is my first interaction with pacemaker and SCSI reservations and I was wondering how to unfence a node without rebooting it ?

For first encounter with SCSI reservation I would recommend 'fence_scsi' 
over 'fence_mpath' for the reason that it is easier to configure :)
If everything works correctly then simple restart of cluster on fenced 
node should be enough.

Side NOTE: There was discussion previous year about change that 
introduced ability to choose what happens when node is fenced by 
storage-based fence agent (like fence_mpath/fence_scsi) that defaults as 
of now to 'shutdown the cluster'. In newer pacemaker versions is option 
that can change this to 'shutdown the cluster and panic the node making 
it to reboot'.

> I tried to stop & start the cluster stack - it just powers off itself.
> Adding the reservation before starting the cluster stack - same.

It sounds like maybe after start the node was fenced again or at least 
the fencing was attempted. Are there any errors 
(/var/log/cluster/corosync.log or similar) in logs about fencing/stonith 
from around the time when the cluster is started again on node?

> Only a reboot works.

What does the state of cluster looks like on living node when other 
nodes is fenced? I wonder if the fenced node is reported as Offline or 
UNCLEAN - you can use the 'crm_mon -1f' to get current cluster state on 
living node for this including the failures.


> 
> Thank for answering my question.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov


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Ondrej Famera
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