[Linux-HA] Another question on suicide STONITH (and multiple STONITH devices at a time)

[Dominik Klein]

Andrew, Dejan

>> the inherent problem with a suicide plugin is that you're relying on a
>> sick node to shoot itself... depending on exactly how sick it is, that
>> may or may not be impossible.

That's why I asked for a configuration which only uses suicide in a 
particular situation (ping connectivity lost). Noone pointed out such a 
configuration and I could not find anything suitable (some people asking 
for the same thing though) so I suspect it's not possible (yet?).

>>> So here are my questions:
>>> Can I configure multiple stonith devices (extern/xen and suicide) at a time?
>> yes, but i've no idea if/how stonith would use them
> 
> stonithd will try all devices capable of reseting the node until
> one succeeds. At least it should. I guess that this is not very
> well tested: people typically have only one stonith device.
> Please report how did it go.

Read below please.

>>> Could someone share some cib.xml snippet that says "if no ping hosts are
>>> reachable, commit suicide"?
>> instead, use pingd to make your resource's stop when connectivity is lost

This point is way more obvious and I am going to go this way instead of 
the suicide stonith. Sort of a friday morning blindness on my side ...