[Pacemaker] Fencing with iDrac 6 Enterprise

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:00:44PM +0800, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a two-node cluster of Dell servers. They have an iDRAC 6
> Enterprise each. The cluster is also backed up by a UPS with a
> diesel generator.
> 
> I realise on-board devices like the DRAC are not ideal for fencing,
> but it's probably the best we're going to be able to do. However,
> I've read in some manuals that DRAC 6 is troublesome

How?

> and that the
> drac STONITH agent in Pacemaker only deals with version 5.

There's drac3 and external/drac5.

> Is this still current? Can anyone point me to any documentation or
> examples of configuring iDRAC 6 Enterprise for STONITH, if indeed
> it's possible?

It should be possible, but I can't say. Perhaps you can try with
drac5. If that won't do, then somebody has to write a stonith
plugin. BTW, that's normally not too difficult when one has
access to a device.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Thanks!
> Martin
> 
> 
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