I am trying to set up a minimal proof of concept with RHCS on CentOS 5.3. Three nodes in a cluster (vz1,vz2 vz3), 2 services both just apache defualt page as defined in the cluster.conf below. If I do service cman start on vz1 and vz2 they both hang trying to do "fence_tool -w join" yet clustat and cman_tool status show cluster membership and quorum no services are running If I run tcpdump on vz3 I see that initially both vz1 and vz2 send out (from port 5149) to the multicast address but then vz2 stops and only vz1 continues. Is this correct behaviour? If I then do service cman start on vz3 everything runs (ie. fence_tool doesn' hang), tcpdump on vz3 shows vz1,vz2 and vz3 doing muliticast and then vz2 and vz3 drop out and only vz1 continues with multicast. vz3 has taken on the service vz1. service vz2 never comes up. Ideas? or how do I get service vz1 and vz2 running with vz3 as a spare failover? thanx - steve Below is cluster.conf generated by system-config-cluster <?xml version="1.0" ?> <cluster config_version="2" name="VPS"> <fence_daemon post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="vz1" nodeid="1" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device lanplus="" name="vz1_fence"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="vz2" nodeid="2" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device lanplus="" name="vz2_fence"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="vz3" nodeid="3" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device lanplus="" name="vz3_fence"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <cman/> <fencedevices> <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="PASSWORD" ipaddr="10.254.31.201" login="root" name="vz1_fence" passwd="changeme"/> <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="PASSWORD" ipaddr="10.254.31.202" login="root" name="vz2_fence" passwd="changeme"/> <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="PASSWORD" ipaddr="10.254.31.203" login="root" name="vz3_fence" passwd="changeme"/> </fencedevices> <rm> <failoverdomains> <failoverdomain name="vz1" ordered="1" restricted="1"> <failoverdomainnode name="vz1" priority="1"/> <failoverdomainnode name="vz2" priority="2"/> <failoverdomainnode name="vz3" priority="2"/> </failoverdomain> <failoverdomain name="vz2" ordered="1" restricted="1"> <failoverdomainnode name="vz1" priority="2"/> <failoverdomainnode name="vz2" priority="1"/> <failoverdomainnode name="vz3" priority="2"/> </failoverdomain> </failoverdomains> <resources> <ip address="10.254.32.201" monitor_link="1"/> <script file="/etc/init.d/httpd" name="vzstart"/> <ip address="10.254.32.202" monitor_link="1"/> </resources> <service autostart="1" domain="vz1" exclusive="1" name="vz1" recovery="relocate"> <ip ref="10.254.32.201"/> <script ref="vzstart"/> </service> <service autostart="1" domain="vz2" exclusive="1" name="vz2" recovery="relocate"> <ip ref="10.254.32.202"/> <script ref="vzstart"/> </service> </rm> </cluster> -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster