[Pacemaker] Pacemaker remote nodes, naming, and attributes

[David Vossel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Vossel" <dvossel at redhat.com>
> To: "The Pacemaker cluster resource manager" <pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 5:16:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Pacemaker remote nodes, naming, and attributes
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lindsay Todd" <rltodd.ml1 at gmail.com>
> > To: "The Pacemaker cluster resource manager"
> > <pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:09:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Pacemaker remote nodes, naming, and attributes
> > 
> > So I've switched my cluster to be asymmetric...
> > 
> > The remote nodes don't appear (although the VMs start, and pacemaker_remote
> > runs on them). This is a problem.
> > 
> > Temporarily switch to symmetric without restarting everything, and the
> > remote
> > nodes appear in the cluster status. (But I'd have to do more
> > reconfiguration
> > here.) Seems like the "remote node" resource won't start on the VM without
> > some imaginary location constraint to help it?
> 
> ha, yep that's exactly what is going on.  I can fix that. I'll post a patch
> soon.

Both the crash and the problem with remote-nodes in asymmetrical clusters should be fixed upstream now.

https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/commit/1b2e3ead42340ce0cae41a96dd32c44ffb5acb7d

https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/commit/5fb95fbfb7ef8cb899633bdcb9d515f02272a417

Thanks again for your continued involvement with helping stabilize this feature.  This has been very valuable feedback.

-- Vossel