[Pacemaker] will online node shoots the standby node when no cluster services?

[Digimer]

On 10/17/2012 02:10 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A simple question for a simple 2-nodes cluster running
> pacemaker-1.0.9, corosync-1.2.1 (Debian/Squeeze): 
> 
> will the online node stonith the other standby node if I stop the
> cluster services on it? (I need to open the chassis)
> 
> thanks!
> jf

No.

The idea behind fencing is to restore a node to a known state. If you
gracefully shutdown the cluster stack, then it is able to inform the
peer node that it is leaving and will not be offering any clustered
services. Thus, it is in a known state and all is fine.

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