On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Yes as you said, I am able to power down node4 using node3, so it seems ipmi is working fine. But I dunno what is going on with my two node cluster. Can a red hat cluster operates fine in a two nodes mode? Do i need qdisk or it is optional. Which area do i need to focus to run my 2 nodes red hat cluster using ipmi as fencing device. Thanks Paras. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
