[Linux-cluster] Can a 2-node Cluster boot-up with only one active node?

Randy Brown randy.brown at noaa.gov
Thu Oct 4 11:18:32 UTC 2007


In a two node cluster I believe you want to use:
<cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/>
in cluster.conf.

Randy

Celso K. Webber wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Sorry for asking this basic question, I've checked the Cluster FAQ and 
> did not find anything related to this.
>
> I have set up a 2-node Cluster, with quorum/qdiskd configured, and 
> everything goes fine.
>
> But in the case where I need to shut down the whole cluster, and then 
> for some reason I can boot up only one of the nodes, it does not come 
> up, staying always at the "Inquorate" status.
>
> What is the correct behaviour? Shouldn't my Cluster come up because I 
> have two votes active? In this case each node counts one vote in the 
> cluster, and the quorum counts another one.
>
> By the way, I'm setting up qdiskd with no heuristics at all, I have no 
> "pingable" router in this network.
>
> Here is the relevant parts of the cluster.conf file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <cluster config_version="9" name="clu_NAME">
>     <quorumd log_facility="local6" device="/dev/emcpowere1" 
> interval="1" min_score="0" tko="10" votes="1"/>
>     <fence_daemon post_fail_delay="10" post_join_delay="3"/>
>     <clusternodes>
>         <clusternode name="node1" votes="1">
>             <fence>
>                 <method name="1">
>                     <device lanplus="" name="node1-ipmi"/>
>                 </method>
>             </fence>
>         </clusternode>
>         <clusternode name="node2" votes="1">
>             <fence>
>                 <method name="1">
>                     <device lanplus="" name="node2-ipmi"/>
>                 </method>
>             </fence>
>         </clusternode>
>     </clusternodes>
>     <cman/>
>     <fencedevices>
>         <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="none" 
> ipaddr="node1-ipmi" login="root" name="node1-ipmi" passwd="PASS"/>
>         <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="none" 
> ipaddr="node2-ipmi" login="root" name="node2-ipmi" passwd="PASS"/>
>     </fencedevices>
>     <rm log_facility="local6">
> ...
>     </rm>
> </cluster>
>




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