Hi, I have three nodes oben, mitte and unten. Test: I have disabled eth0 on mitte, so that mitte will be excluded. Result: Oben and unten are trying to fence mitte and build a new cluster. OK! But mitte tries to fence oben and unten. PROBLEM! Why can this happen? Mitte knows that it can not build a cluster. See Logfile from mitte: "Have 1, need 2" Logfile from mitte: Aug 3 12:53:17 mitte lock_gulmd_core[1845]: Client (oben) expired Aug 3 12:53:17 mitte lock_gulmd_core[1845]: Core lost slave quorum. Have 1, need 2. Switching to Arbitrating. Aug 3 12:53:17 mitte lock_gulmd_core[2120]: Gonna exec fence_node oben Aug 3 12:53:17 mitte lock_gulmd_core[1845]: Forked [2120] fence_node oben with a 0 pause. Aug 3 12:53:17 mitte fence_node[2120]: Performing fence method, manual, on oben. cluster.ccs: cluster { name = "tom" lock_gulm { servers = ["oben", "mitte", "unten"] } } fence.ccs: fence_devices { manual_oben { agent = "fence_manual" } manual_mitte ... nodes.ccs: nodes { oben { ip_interfaces { eth0 = "192.168.100.241" } fence { manual { manual_oben { ipaddr = "192.168.100.241" } } } } mitte ... regards Bernd Schumacher