If ilo itself is off, fencing doesn't work. Did you add ilo as a fence device? And create a user? You create a user in the ilo for that blade, not on the chassis. You have to reboot the blade to get to the ilo manager. Robert Gil Linux Systems Administrator American Home Mortgage Phone: 631-622-8410 Cell: 631-827-5775 Fax: 516-495-5861 -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manish Kathuria Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:45 PM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: Problems with Cluster On 6/11/07, Maciej Bogucki <maciej.bogucki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Manish Kathuria napisał(a): > > We want the failover to happen when the power supply fails to either > > of the nodes. In order to test the scenario, we removed the power > > cables from one of the nodes. However the failover did not happen > > and upon observing the logs we found that the alive node could not > > connect to the fence device (ILO in this case) of the dead node > > since it was powered off and the fencing could not take place. Does > > this mean that we would not be able to have a failover in case of > > power failure for one of the nodes. Is there a way we can do it ? > > How is the cluster supposed to react when the ILO itself is powered off ? > > You need to perform manual fencing(administrator reaction) when it happend. > Isn't there any way which is automated and does not require manual intervention ? Otherwise, the whole purpose gets defeated. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
