[Linux-cluster] What is manual-failure override?

[David Teigland]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:38:13PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The CVS commit which removed fence_manual.c (and thus my favourite
> agent :) says:
> 
> Remove fence_manual; only provide manual-failure override
> 
> Good.  Now, how do I use manual fencing?  What's to be written into
> cluster.conf?  (cluster 2.00.00)

You just leave the <fence> sections empty for all the nodes.  When
a node fails, fenced no longer runs fence_manual, it just waits for
you to run "fence_ack_manual <nodename>" which tells fenced to go on.

Dave