On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 11:58 +0000, "Sævaldur Arnar Gunnarsson [Hugsmiðjan]" wrote: > What does "automatic" fencing have to offer that the manual fencing > lacks. Automatic fencing uses hardware to fence a node and reboot it. Manual fencing relay on you to manually fence the node whenever you release there is a problem in the cluster and relays on you to prowercycle the faulty node manually, no very convenient when you are sysadmin the cluster remotely. > If we decide to buy the FC switch right away is it recomended that we > buy one of the ones that have fencing agent available for the > Cluster-Suite ? If you look at the configuration manual for RHCS, there is a list of supported fencing agents. > If can't get our hands on supported FC switchs can we do fencing in > another manner than throught a FC switch ? Manual fencing. Nando -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
