[Pacemaker] resource-stickiness not working?

David Vossel dvossel at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 14:31:49 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> Here is a simple Active/Passive configuration with a single Dummy resource
> (see end of message). The resource-stickiness default is set to 100. I was
> assuming that this would be enough to keep the Dummy resource on the active
> node as long as the active node stays healthy. However, stickiness is not
> working as I expected in the following scenario:
> 
> 1) The node testnode1, which is running the Dummy resource, reboots or
> crashes
> 2) Dummy resource fails to node testnode2
> 3) testnode1 comes back up after reboot or crash
> 4) Dummy resource fails back to testnode1
> 
> I don't want the resource to failback to the original node in step 4. That is
> why resource-stickiness is set to 100. The only way I can get the resource
> to not to fail back is to set resource-stickiness to INFINITY. Is this the
> correct behavior of resource-stickiness? What am I missing? This is not what
> I understand from the documentation from clusterlabs.org. BTW, after reading
> various postings on fail back issues, I played with setting on-fail to
> standby, but that doesn't seem to help either. Any help is appreciated!

I agree, this is curious.

Can you attach a crm_report? Then we can walk through the transitions to
figure out why this is happening.

-- Vossel

> Scott
> 
> node testnode1
> node testnode2
> primitive dummy ocf:heartbeat:Dummy \
> op start timeout="180s" interval="0" \
> op stop timeout="180s" interval="0" \
> op monitor interval="60s" timeout="60s" migration-threshold="5"
> xml <rsc_location id="cli-prefer-dummy" rsc="dummy" role="Started"
> node="testnode2" score="INFINITY"/>
> property $id="cib-bootstrap-options" \
> dc-version="1.1.10-14.el6-368c726" \
> cluster-infrastructure="classic openais (with plugin)" \
> expected-quorum-votes="2" \
> stonith-enabled="false" \
> stonith-action="reboot" \
> no-quorum-policy="ignore" \
> last-lrm-refresh="1413378119"
> rsc_defaults $id="rsc-options" \
> resource-stickiness="100" \
> migration-threshold="5"
> 
> 
> 
> 
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