[Pacemaker] Pacemaker 1.1: cloned stonith resources require --force to be added to levels

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 5 Jul 2014, at 1:00 am, Giuseppe Ragusa <giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: andrew at beekhof.net
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 22:50:28 +1000
> To: pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Pacemaker 1.1: cloned stonith resources require	--force to be added to levels
> 
>  
> On 4 Jul 2014, at 1:29 pm, Giuseppe Ragusa <giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  
> > >> Hi all,
> > >> while creating a cloned stonith resource
> > > 
> > > Any particular reason you feel the need to clone it?
> >  
> > In the end, I suppose it's only a "purist mindset" :) because it is a PDU whose power outlets control both nodes, so
> > its resource "should be" active (and monitored) on both nodes "independently".
> > I understand that it would work anyway, leaving it not cloned and not location-constrained
> > just as regular, "dedicated" stonith devices would not need to be location-constrained, right?
> > 
> > >> for multi-level STONITH on a fully-up-to-date CentOS 6.5 (pacemaker-1.1.10-14.el6_5.3.x86_64):
> > >> 
> > >> pcs cluster cib stonith_cfg
> > >> pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith create pdu1 fence_apc action="off" \
> > >>     ipaddr="pdu1.verolengo.privatelan" login="cluster" passwd="test" \    pcmk_host_map="cluster1.verolengo.privatelan:3,cluster1.verolengo.privatelan:4,cluster2.verolengo.privatelan:6,cluster2.verolengo.privatelan:7" \
> > >>     pcmk_host_check="static-list" pcmk_host_list="cluster1.verolengo.privatelan,cluster2.verolengo.privatelan" op monitor interval="240s"
> > >> pcs -f stonith_cfg resource clone pdu1 pdu1Clone
> > >> pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith level add 2 cluster1.verolengo.privatelan pdu1Clone
> > >> pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith level add 2 cluster2.verolengo.privatelan pdu1Clone
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> the last 2 lines do not succeed unless I add the option "--force" and even so I still get errors when issuing verify:
> > >> 
> > >> [root at cluster1 ~]# pcs stonith level verify
> > >> Error: pdu1Clone is not a stonith id
> > > 
> > > If you check, I think you'll find there is no such resource as 'pdu1Clone'.
> > > I don't believe pcs lets you decide what the clone name is.
> > 
> > You're right! (obviously ;> )
> > It's been automatically named pdu1-clone
> > 
> > I suppose that there's still too much crmsh in my memory :)
> > 
> > Anyway, removing the stonith level (to start from scratch) and using the correct clone name does not change the result:
> > 
> > [root at cluster1 etc]# pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith level add 2 cluster1.verolengo.privatelan pdu1-clone
> > Error: pdu1-clone is not a stonith id (use --force to override)
>  
> I bet we didn't think of that.
> What if you just do:
>  
>    pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith level add 2 cluster1.verolengo.privatelan pdu1
>  
> Does that work?
>  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Yes, no errors at all and verify successful.
> 
> Remember that a full real test (to verify actual second level functionality in presence of first level failure)
> is still pending for both the plain and cloned setup.
> 
> Apropos: I read through the list archives that stonith resources (being resources, after all)
> could themselves cause fencing (!) if failing (start, monitor, stop)

stop just unsets a flag in stonithd.
start does perform a monitor op though, which could fail.

but by default only stop failure would result in fencing.


> and that an ad-hoc
> on-fail setting could be used to prevent that.
> Maybe my aforementioned naive testing procedure (pull the iLO cable) could provoke that?

_shouldnt_ do so

> Would you suggest to configure such an on-fail option?

again, shouldn't be necessary

> 
> Many thanks again for your help (and all your valuable work, of course!).
> 
> Regards,
> Giuseppe
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