[Linux-cluster] manual fencing issue

[Kevin Anderson]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 16:46 +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a new member to the linux-cluster mailing list.
> 
> I'm trying to set up a 2-node cluster using RedHat Cluster based on
> OpenAIS, with manual fencing (for now).
> 
> When I reboot a node (l6-z-5), I get the following error messages in
> /var/log/syslog of the other node (l6-z-12):
> 
> Oct 12 16:38:02 l6-z-12 fenced[4508]: fencing node "l6-z-5"
> Oct 12 16:38:02 l6-z-12 fenced[4508]: fence "l6-z-5" failed
> 
> Probably because of that fencing failure, the service located on
> l6-z-5 doesn't failover to l6-z-12. The fenced error messages repeat
> until l6-z-5 rejoins the cluster.
> 
> Does anyone know what's going on?
> 
> My cluster.conf includes this for the fencing part:
> 
>         <fencedevices>
>                 <fencedevice agent="fencemanual" name="last_resort"/>

Try fence_manual as the agent name.

Kevin