You might want to take a look at this ILO Fence Agent. http://download.atix.de/yum/comoonics/redhat-el5/productive/noarch/RPMS/comoonics-bootimage-fenceclient-ilo-0.1-18.noarch.rpm I think when I wrote it I detected the same problem and fixed it there. Marc. On Thursday 07 August 2008 09:33:46 Jakub Suchy wrote: > > Does not sound like you are having a fencing issue, but I can share our > > configuration / implementation and experiences with it. > > > > We have been using fencing configured for HP iLO and iLO2 for the better > > of 2-years, with almost a full year in production now. It is slow (42+ > > seconds per fencing attempt) and always problematic. We are piloting > > Hi, > I am currently implementing cluster using HP iLO and i am experiencing > this slowness too. As far as I have dug into the fence_ilo perl script, it > seems that longest time it takes is for opening a SSL socket to the card. > Also, the script for reboot works like this (pseudocode): > > if ($action == reboot) { > check_status(); > if (status == on) { > power_off(); > check_status(); // if error... > } > } > > this means 3 operations = 3 sockets = lots of time. > If the script could be rewritten to reuse existing socket, it will be a > lot faster. I just don't know how to determine if the socket is still > alive (then we need to reconnect). Anyone? > > (Also, fence_ilo depends on perl-Crypt-SSLeay, but this is not marked as a > dependency in relevant channel, so you have to install it manually - i > should post a bug report to bugzilla). > > Jakub > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Gruss / Regards, Marc Grimme Phone: +49-89 452 3538-14 http://www.atix.de/ http://www.open-sharedroot.org/ ** ATIX Informationstechnologie und Consulting AG Einsteinstr. 10 85716 Unterschleissheim Deutschland/Germany Phone: +49-89 452 3538-0 Fax: +49-89 990 1766-0 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen Registernummer: HRB 168930 USt.-Id.: DE209485962 Vorstand: Marc Grimme, Mark Hlawatschek, Thomas Merz (Vors.) Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Martin Buss -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
