I have a c7000 too with two test blades I'm going to install. I'm available to test it if you like. My planned OS will be RedHat EL 5 U3 x86_64 with its clustersuite Blades will be 2 x BL685c G1 serving Oracle 10gR2 At this moment the fw version of the c7000 is 2.25, while iLo fw is 1.60 One question: I see that on standard blade fence agent (that is for IBM enclosures) you can issue a command such as "power off blade number 3". I imagine the same on this c7000 fence agent, correct? In this case can we say that commands on c7000 (onboard admin I presume) bypasses the iLO of the blades or not? So are they effectively an alternative to iLO commands if for example the iLo is broken, or not? One other thing. Probably you reported the cluster.conf xml layout only as an example, because at this moment the c7000 fence agent would try to do its work only if the iLO agent fails, so you have to invert their order inside the <clusternode> sections bye, Gianluca -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster