[Pacemaker] The different between lanplus and open for IPMI

[Vladislav Bogdanov]

Hi,

24.05.2011 11:54, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:31:01PM +0800, jiaju liu wrote:
>>
>> HI all I use ipmi as stonith resource. the interface I use lanplus first, however, it doesn't work. I check log,it shows nodea external/ipmi[3433]: ERROR: error executing 
>> ipmitool: Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session^M Unable to 
>> get Chassis Power Status 
>>
>> so I change interface to open, so ipmi works, will it influence stonith resource work?
> 
> If ipmitool works then the stonith resource will work too. Best
> to check documentation for your fencing device and its IPMI
> implementation.

'open' IPMI interface is a local interface. Usually it is able to
interact only with a local BMC, thus it is only possible to fence a node
on which fencing agent runs. Probably this is not what is wanted.

Best,
Vladislav