On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:18:39AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: >On 2008-10-27T13:31:41, Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Please add the sgi-ipmi plugin >> >>The attached file is the sgi-ipmi plugin. >> >>It supports SGI x86_64 systems based on both Intel and Supermicro BMCs. > >Hi Anibal, > >thanks for this submission! Before merging it, one or two questions: > >First, we have an external/ipmi and a ipmilan fencing RA already; could >this not be folded into these? It seems extremly similar to the >external/ipmi one.
We plan to use ipmilan. >># External STONITH module for ipmi. >># This STONITH module takes two arguments: >># $1 is the operation >># $2 is the node to operate on >># It takes a single environmental variable: nodelist >># which is a space separated list of node definitions >># Each Node definition consists of: >># nodename;userid;passwd;bmctype;ipaddr1[;ipaddrn] >># Where: >># nodename is the hostname of a node >># userid is the userid to use on the IPMI device >># passwd is the password to use on the IPMI device >># bmctype is the bmctype of the IPMI device (intel or supermicro) >># ipaddr is the IP address of the IPMI device > >I wonder if this is a good interface for configuration. > >Would it not be cleaner to have one such resource per "nodelist" entry, >so that these would indeed be separate parameters, which the user then >could configure as such using the GUI/CLI? I'll start using ipmilan soon with the goal to raplace the sgi-ipmi plugin with it. I have two questions. We have a minimum of two IPMI IP addresses per node. If one of them is not responding, we use the other one for the reset operation. But before the IMPI reset command, we ping the IPMI IP address. We do the ping because we want to know in less than 3 seconds if the IPMI IP address is responding to pings instead of waiting 50 seconds for an IPMI command timeout. I'm planning to add a ping function to ipmilan_command.c, is it a good idea? How can I tell ipmilan that I have two two IPMI IP addresses per node? _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
