[Linux-cluster] HP ILO Fence Configuration

[jim parsons]

The problem here is that the RIBCL interface insists on a new connection
each time you contact it - so there is alot of buildup/teardown time. We
tried to help this agent's speed by adding a 'force="1"'attribute in the
cluster.conf fencedevice section for it. This attribute just kills it as
fast as possible - and does not do the initial status check. Fencing was
done in less than 7 seconds using this attribute. I'm pretty sure this
is doc'd on the schema page and should be in the man page for fence_ilo
as well.

Hope this helps...

-J

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:57 +0200, Marc Grimme wrote:
> You might want to take a look at this ILO Fence Agent.
> http://download.atix.de/yum/comoonics/redhat-el5/productive/noarch/RPMS/comoonics-bootimage-fenceclient-ilo-0.1-18.noarch.rpm
> I think when I wrote it I detected the same problem and fixed it there.
> Marc.
> On Thursday 07 August 2008 09:33:46 Jakub Suchy wrote:
> > > Does not sound like you are having a fencing issue, but I can share our
> > > configuration / implementation and experiences with it.
> > >
> > > We have been using fencing configured for HP iLO and iLO2 for the better
> > > of 2-years, with almost a full year in production now.  It is slow (42+
> > > seconds per fencing attempt) and always problematic.  We are piloting
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am currently implementing cluster using HP iLO and i am experiencing
> > this slowness too. As far as I have dug into the fence_ilo perl script, it
> > seems that longest time it takes is for opening a SSL socket to the card.
> > Also, the script for reboot works like this (pseudocode):
> >
> > if ($action == reboot) {
> >   check_status();
> >   if (status == on) {
> >     power_off();
> >     check_status(); // if error...
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > this means 3 operations = 3 sockets = lots of time.
> > If the script could be rewritten to reuse existing socket, it will be a
> > lot faster. I just don't know how to determine if the socket is still
> > alive (then we need to reconnect). Anyone?
> >
> > (Also, fence_ilo depends on perl-Crypt-SSLeay, but this is not marked as a
> > dependency in relevant channel, so you have to install it manually - i
> > should post a bug report to bugzilla).
> >
> > Jakub
> >
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