[Linux-cluster] Fencing Driver API Requirements

[Lon Hohberger]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:09 +0200, Marek 'marx' Grac wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 20:47 +0200, Marek 'marx' Grac wrote:
> >   
> > The issue is that with such a critical component of a cluster (if the
> > fencing is not right bad things will happen) that in order to write a
> > new fencing agent one has to start reverse engineering from source to
> > work out what you need to do.
> >   
> Those new agents with python module are available only in developer 
> branch are not a part of any distribution yet. There will be a 
> documentation soon. Supported fencing agents has their man pages are 
> there is description of how they work as they can use both getopt and 
> stdin arguments. These options does not have to have anything common, as 
> they are taken from the cluster.conf. Unfortunately some of the existing 
> fencing agents use different options, so there are no standard options 
> [there is an attempt to have them in new fencing agents].

Here's a start:

http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/FenceAgentAPI

-- Lon