[Linux-HA] extrernal Stonith device...

[Alan Robertson]

Peter Weiss wrote:
> Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> writes:
> 
> 
>>Peter Weiss wrote:
>>[...]
>>
>>For release 1.2.x:
>>
>>It looks pretty strange...
>>
>>Status always returns OK (no matter what).  I.e., status is meaningless...
>>poweron/poweroff/reset are all treated the same.
>>
>>It just runs the same command string you gave it regardless of whether
>>the command given to it is:
>>	power off
>>	power on
>>	reset
>>
>>This means this command had better do a reset (or power off) no matter what...
>>
>>There is no way for such a STONITH external device to work for more
>>than one host.  Hostlist never works for the external plugin.
>>
>>Now, if your STONITH -p option references a command, that command
>>might take options, but a given stonith directive will never give that
>>command different options (so you cant have * for a host name in
>>stonith_host)
>>
>>There is no reference to any environment variables in the code.  The
>>comment about $EXTERNAL appears to be incorrect.
>>
>>If you use stonith_host, then rpc.cfg isn't used by heartbeat.  It
>>will get used by the manual stonith command, unless you invoke it with
>>a -p or -f
>>option.
>>
>>[...]
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> with Marc's hint it works now: the "power state" was just there for testing.
> Now, when the second node takes over it uses the correct stonith command and
> the dead node is resetted or powered off.
> 
> I just don't know much about the interaction between heartbeat and stonith.
> AFAIUI heartbeat just runs the command in the stonith_host line after the
> foo:
> 
> stonith_host itaibi09 external foo /etc/ha.d/stonith.ibmrsa -h rsa-itaibi12
>         -c "power off"
> 
> This turns the power off and that's the way it should do.
> 
> Next thing would be to run the scripts that take over NFS resources and
> such...

If you'd be willing to contribute your stonith.ibmrsa script that would be 
very useful to me (I work for IBM).

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