On Tuesday 24 February 2009 16:59:26 Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > thanks, but where do I have to put the timeout? > Inside fence seciotn of the nodes: > <fence> > <method name="1"> > <device name="ilonode01"/> > </method> > </fence> > > or inside definition of fence devices: > <fencedevices> > <fencedevice agent="fence_ilo" hostname="10.4.192.208" > login="fenceuser" name="ilonode01" passwd="rhelclasi"/> > <fencedevice agent="fence_ilo" hostname="10.4.192.209" > login="fenceuser" name="ilonode02" passwd="rhelclasi"/> > </fencedevices> > > ? > It is frustrating to be always impossible to check syntax and > parameters for this cluster.conf mistery file... ;-( This time you're lucky cause it's just a fenced option: [root@generix2 ~]# fenced -h Usage: fenced [options] Options: -c All nodes are in a clean state to start -j <secs> Post-join fencing delay (default 6) -f <secs> Post-fail fencing delay (default 0) -O <path> Override path (default /var/run/cluster/fenced_override) -D Enable debugging code and don't fork -h Print this help, then exit -V Print program version information, then exit Command line values override those in cluster.conf. For an unbounded delay use <secs> value of -1. And you don't want to change it for all nodes the same. So add this (-f ) option to the /etc/init.d/cman initscript in the function start_daemons to fenced. As there is no variable like FENCED_FAIL_DELAY you have to change the script ;( . Marc. > > Thanks > Gianluca > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Marc Grimme <grimme@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > We've solved this problem by using fence_timeouts that are dependent on > > the nodeid. Means node0 gets timeout=0 and node1 gets timeout=10. Then > > node0 will always survive. That's not the optimum way but works. > > Or use qdiskd and let it detect the networkpartitioning (whereever it > > happens) and decide which side should survive by a heuristic. > > Marc. -- Gruss / Regards, Marc Grimme Phone: +49-89 452 3538-14 http://www.atix.de/ http://www.open-sharedroot.org/ ATIX Informationstechnologie und Consulting AG | Einsteinstrasse 10 | 85716 Unterschleissheim | www.atix.de | www.open-sharedroot.org 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