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
