On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:01 -0400, Greg Forte wrote: > Eric Kerin wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:20 -0400, Greg Forte wrote: > > > >>There was a message on this list in January to the effect of "does APC > >>7900 work with fence_apc?" / "I think so ...". > >> > >>Has anyone confirmed this? > > > > > > I'm using them in my cluster, they work well with the fence_apc agent. > > > > The only caveat is that the agent won't work if you use outlet groups > > for cluster nodes, without a few changes to the agent. I can give you > > my modified version if you want to use outlet groups for cluster nodes. > > (A patch will be coming that will work with both port group and non-port > > group modes, but I haven't had a chance to write it up yet.) > > Great, thanks. > > I'm new to this sort of hardware, not sure exactly what you mean by > "outlet groups", could you elaborate? > It's a feature on the APC 7900 that will allow a single command to one 7900 to automatically turn off/on ports on other 7900s via the network. I use it to turn off both power supplies on my cluster nodes at once, while still providing redundant paths for power. Eric -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
