[Linux-HA] CRM and STONITH questions

[Dave Blaschke]

matilda matilda wrote:
>>>> Dave Blaschke <debltc at us.ibm.com> 19.10.2007 14:39 >>>
>>>>         
>> Until the plugin is actually configured, it does not have access to the 
>> attributes - this is the same for external and built-in plugins.  For 
>> operations that just return information, such as getconfignames and 
>> getinfo, the plugin does not need to be configured.  For actions that 
>> actually DO something, like gethosts, status, reset, etc. the plugin 
>> does need to be configured.  Now if your plugin is loaded and 
>> configured, then even the getconfignames operation will have access to 
>> the attributes - but there is no reason to call getconfignames at this 
>> point because it was called before the plugin was loaded in order to see 
>> what attributes the plugin needs to be loaded.
>>     
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> that's what I explained to myself after investigation.
> But: I don't have a nice way to configure e.g. a debugging flag.
> If I want to enable debugging I want to see debug output of the whole
> life cycle of the stonith plugin.
>
> In my personal opinion there has to be a way to tell the external stonith
> plugin to do some kind of tracing/logging.
> Or do you have a solution to tell this from the outside?
>   
Well, if you enable debug in ha.cf the stonith code will log more 
information.  And you can always code in your own environment variable 
(i.e. MYPLUGIN_DEBUG) to enable debugging.  I suppose it is feasible to 
create a standard environment variable that HA will create if debugging 
is enabled and not create if it isn't.
> Best regards
> Andreas Mock
>
>
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