Greetings, On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In an act to solve my fencing issue in my 2 node cluster, i tried to > run fence_ipmi to check if fencing is working or not. I need to know > what is my problem > > - > [root@ha1lx ~]# fence_ipmilan -a 10.42.21.28 -o off -l admin -p admin > Powering off machine @ IPMI:10.42.21.28...ipmilan: Failed to connect > after 30 seconds > Failed > [root@ha1lx ~]# > --------------- > > > Here 10.42.21.28 is an IP address assigned to IPMI interface and I am > running this command in the same host. > Sorry couldn't respond earlier as I do this on personal time (which as useual limited for us IT guys and gals ;-) ) and not during work per se.. Do not run fence script from the node that you want to fence. Let us say you want to fence node 3. 1. Try pinging the node 3's IPMI from node 4. I should be successful 2. Issue the fence command from Node 4 with IP of Node 3 IPMI as argument . HTH With warm regards Rajagopal -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
