[ClusterLabs] Cluster node unfencing

[Andrei Borzenkov]

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:47 PM Kiril Pashin <kirilp at ca.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Hi ,
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> From what I see in the documentation for fabric fencing, Pacemaker requires an administrator to login to the node to manually start and unfence the node after some failure.
> https://clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/doc/deprecated/en-US/Pacemaker/2.0/html/Pacemaker_Explained/s-unfencing.html
> The concern I have is if there is an intermittent network issues, a node may get fenced and we have to wait for someone to log into the cluster and bring the node back online. Meanwhile the network issue may have resolved itself shortly after the node was fenced.
> I wonder if there are any configurations/solutions that people use to automatically unfence nodes?
> Is there a reason Pacemaker doesn't allow nodes to automatically be unfenced / rejoin the cluster?
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> Kiril Pashin
> DB2 Purescale Development & Support
> kirilp at ca.ibm.com
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