From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Teigland Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:22:22 -0500 Subject: [Cluster-devel] When is fencing considered successful? In-Reply-To: <1225296761.4239.31.camel@dhcp80-204.msp.redhat.com> References: <1225296761.4239.31.camel@dhcp80-204.msp.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20081029162221.GC23927@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:12:41AM -0500, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently we had cluster customer where the fencing agent successfully > powered off a node, but the script failed to power the node back on due > to firmware changes on the fencing device. > > Question is whether we should consider this a successful fence event or > does the agent have to complete everything? The primary purpose of the > fencing agent is to stop the node from participating in the cluster. In > this case, that was successful. But, because the power on attempt > failed, the fence agent reported failure and the cluster hung waiting > for a followup action. > > It would seem to me that the fence agent should report success in this > case, and maybe post a warning message about the failure to power on. > > Thoughts? Definately