[ClusterLabs] pcs update resource command not working

[kgaillot at redhat.com]

On Fri, 2021-07-09 at 05:29 +0000, S Sathish S wrote:
> Hi Team,
>  
> we have find the cause of this problem as per below changelog pcs
> resource update command doesn’t support empty meta_attributes
> anymore.
>  
> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pcs/blob/0.9.169/CHANGELOG.md
> pcs resource update does not create an empty meta_attributes element
> any more (rhbz#1568353)
>  
> [root at node01 testadmin]# pcs resource update SNMP_node01 user=''
> extra_options="-E /opt/occ/CXP/tools/PCSXXX.sh"
>  
> Later modified to below command it work for us.
> [root at node01 testadmin]# pcs resource update SNMP_node01 user='root'
> extra_options="-E /opt/occ/CXP/tools/PCSXXX.sh"
>  
> But our problem we have disabled root user account by default , so we
> are not sure which user can be given here and if that given user
> account got disabled/password expire what will be impact of this
> cluster monitoring SNMP service and so on.
>  
> While doing pcs resource create SNMP with empty string for user
> attribute it work for us, One more difference we noticed.
>  
> Query:
>         1) It is recommended to create SNMP ClusterMon resource type
> with empty user as attribute.
>         2) if not , update resource with some user and that user
> account got disabled/password expire what will be impact of this
> cluster monitoring SNMP service and so on.
>  
> Thanks and Regards,
> S Sathish

Hi Sathish,

Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your questions, but I can say
that using ClusterMon for SNMP has been deprecated since alerts became
available in Pacemaker 1.1.15. See (especially "Using the Sample Alert
Agents"):

 https://clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/doc/2.1/Pacemaker_Explained/singlehtml/index.html#document-alerts
-- 
Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com>