[Pacemaker] Using Cluster Test Suite (CTS) with "debug: on" in corosync.conf failed

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Timo Schäpe <schaepe at dfn-cert.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> for whom it may interest, here's something that cost me a whole day of work:
>
> I used CTS to test my cluster configuration and it worked fine. For
> debugging a resource agent I switched on the debug output in corosync.conf:
>
> logging {
>        [...]
>        debug: on
>        [...]
> }
>
> After I fixed the bug, I forgot to switch debug output off. This caused
> most of the CTS tests to fail with this warning:
>
> CTS: Warn: Startup pattern not found: myhost crmd:.*The local CRM is
> operational
>
> After I switched debug output off, the CTS worked fine as before.

We've since added a BadNews pattern that looks for syslog messages
being dropped/throttled.

How was your experience with CTS otherwise?
Periodically I try to improve the usability so that eventually
non-developers can use it, it would be interesting to hear how we're
doing.