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

[Arnold Krille]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 11:24:25 Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:21:24 -0400 Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > If my understanding is correct, the same applies when you "only" put
> > the node in standby?
> > At least I couldn't manually fence the node long after I did put it to
> > standby...
> 
> That doesn't sound right.  How did you try and fence it?

"crm node fence nebel2", where nebel2 is the host concerned and currently the 
only one with a working ipmi-implementation on the mobo.

Just some minutes ago I had another try at fencing. At first the given command 
(with an active nebel2) did nothing. Then I thought maybe I should activate 
stonith in the cluster config. After committing the change in crm, two of the 
three nodes fenced itself and all where marked as UNCLEAN. Only deactivating 
stonith and rebooting the last remaining node gave back a valid cluster with 
quorum...

Very strange. But as this is our productive/development cluster (testing at 
our office so we don't test at the clients, but productive because our office-
people work on the cluster to get a realistic work-load), we also experiment 
and test the ipmi-implementations of the various vendors:
 - the ipmi on the supermicro-board seems to work, testing with the 
external/ipmi agent says its okay, only fencing itself seems to fail. And of 
course the mobo says that there is a cpu present but it can't get its 
temperature and it finds the powerdistribution-board but none of the two power-
supplies.
 - one of the intel-boards works fine. As long as you have the ipmi either in 
the untagged network or in a tagged vlan>1. Tagged vlan1 doesn't work for 
ipmi:-(

Anyway, have a nice evening,

Arnold
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