[Linux-cluster] What if the fence device doesn't work?

Wed Nov 22 05:50:19 UTC 2006

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:36:44AM -0500, Eric Kerin wrote:
> Well, first it tries ilo.  If that fails, it uses the APC.  If that 
> fails, then we have a multipoint failure, and obviously protecting 
> against multipoint failure costs a lot more than protecting against a 
> single point failure...

OK, I thought that the power would go through the APC first, iLO second.
So if the APC failed, then a working iLO would do no good, because it
wouldn't have power. But then, I'm not an expert on hardware...

--Janne