Hello, I know that manual fencing is not supported. However, I don't have anything else with the hardware I am testing at this time. When (if) we go live with this, I'll be using Dell DRACs to handle the fencing. At any rate, I am trying manual fencing to test proof of concept. I am using RHEL5.1 with Conga to configure it. My config is at the bottom of this email. Shouldn't there be a nodename paramater in this block: <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="fence00" nodename="dss01.foobar.local"/> </method> </fence> ?? If so, why isn't Conga configuring this correctly? If not, why am I getting this error during a crash of the node with the service on it: Jan 29 10:56:08 dss00 fenced[2965]: agent "fence_manual" reports: failed: fence_manual no node name Jan 29 10:56:08 dss00 fenced[2965]: fence "dss01.foobar.local" failed Thanks for any ideas. <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster alias="cluster00" config_version="5" name="cluster00"> <fence_daemon clean_start="0" post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="dss01.foobar.local" nodeid="1" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="fence01"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="dss00.foobar.local" nodeid="2" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="fence00"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> <fencedevices> <fencedevice agent="fence_manual" name="fence00"/> <fencedevice agent="fence_manual" name="fence01"/> </fencedevices> <rm> <failoverdomains> <failoverdomain name="failover00" ordered="0" restricted="1"> <failoverdomainnode name="dss01.foobar.local" priority="1"/> <failoverdomainnode name="dss00.foobar.local" priority="1"/> </failoverdomain> </failoverdomains> <resources/> <service autostart="1" domain="failover00" exclusive="0" name="nfs" recovery="relocate"> <ip address="192.168.100.135" monitor_link="1"/> <fs device="/dev/sdb1" force_fsck="0" force_unmount="1" fsid="8849" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/data00" name="data00" self_fence="1"/> <nfsexport name="data00_nfs"/> </service> </rm> </cluster> -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster