[Linux-cluster] gfs and fencing

[Naoki]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:14 +0300, Denis Medvedev wrote:
> Lon Hohberger wrote:
> 
> >If you don't care about having to do manual intervention, you can use
> >manual fencing.  However, I *strongly* recommend against it.  IIRC,
> >there are several example configurations for different power switches in
> >the archive for this mailing list.
> >
> >  
> >
> Why not have ssh -like fencing? On a separate channel a ssh command can 
> be issued to another host to reboot or to just kill cluster processes?
> In Linux-HA stonith has a ssh feature.
> Moreover, why not have a fence_stonith which will invoke stonith as a 
> fencing agent?

How about using OpenIPMI to shut off the power?  Works a treat for us
but have not used it in this context.