[Linux-cluster] Testing a fence program

[David Teigland]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:42:19PM -0700, John Anderson wrote:
> I'm in the process of developing a fence_* program that will xm shutdown
> xen instances remotely.  What is a good way to get fenced to invoke this
> program so I can test/debug it.  I don't see any such options to
> fence_tool or fenced, and I'm thinking fence_manual will just manually
> fence the instance without running the configured fence_ mechanism. 

fence_node executes the configured agent (cluster.conf) against the named
node.  The only way to test it with fenced is to run a cluster and kill
one of the nodes.

Dave