iLO fencing works just fine. You might be missing perl-Crypt-SSLeay which is required for iLO fencing. You need to put all the fence_ilo options in the "fence.ccs" and the option ' action = reboot (or off) for in the fence section of your nodes.ccs file on RHEL3+GFS6.0x. If you are using RHEL4 + GFS 6.1, then it is simpler since the config is expected to be in the same file etc. In either case, you need to make sure the web access to the iLO port is working and that you have a valid account in the iLO config (the built in Administrator account will work) Also, if you are using RHEL4 and an updated iLO firmware, you need to disable power management for the machine due to a change in the way the iLO powers off the machine. It seems to try a nice shutdown by sending the machine into runlevel 6 instead of just pulling the carpet out from under it. My suggestion to the fencing agent coders would be to issue a "power reset" instead of a "power off" as a reset will in fact pull the plug, and is much faster (and thereby "safer") than a power off command. Also, you can always add more than one fencing method to each node. For instace, you can fence the machine at the fibre port as well. I believe you need to manually enable the port again once you have determined that there is no problem etc. Any specific problem you are having? Corey -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cosimo Streppone Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 6:53 AM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: Recommended HP servers for cluster suite Steve Nelson wrote: > On 5/3/06, carlopmart <carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> And what about Porliant DL 380?? > > I use dl380s for low-end, dl580s and now 585s for upper-end clusters. > Very very happy with them. Do you use iLO port for fencing? Please can you explain your iLO configuration? I have some doubts on how to configure fencing. Example: you have nodes A,B and iLO devices Ai, Bi Fencing device for node A should be Ai or Bi? I had also troubles on installation of additional perl modules required to make fence_ilo agent work: despite having IO::Socket::SSL and Net::SSL::something correctly installed, it keeps throwing error messages and I can't seem to correctly startup fenced. -- Cosimo -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
