[Linux-HA] HA EVMS start at boot

[John Lange]

I'm trying to get evms volumes to show up at boot time. SLES10 with
heartbeat but I always get the following error:

Starting EVMSEngine: The plug-in Novell-HA in
module /lib/evms/2.5.5/hb2-1.0.0.so failed to load.  The plug-in's
setup_evms_plugin() function failed with error code 19: No such device.

Yet, when I run "/etc/init.d/evms start" manually it starts no problem.
I suspect heartbeat needs to be running and stabilized before
evms_activate is called? Or is it a matter of adding evms resources to
heartbeat or something along that line?

By the way, evmsd is started by heartbeat as per the instructions on the
wiki (adding respawn evmsd in ha.cf).

I'd very much like to get this running properly right from boot. At the
moment I have to manually run a script after the machine has booted
which starts evms_activate, then mounts the ocfs2 partition, then
restarts nfsserver.

I followed the Novell documentation on this topic but unfortunately the
draft document ends right at the section where its supposed to show you
how to get evms running at boot.

Also, calling evms_activate takes a couple minutes. Is this normal on a
4 node cluster?

John