On 5/30/07, Dave Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
George H wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used APC 7920s as stonith devices for my cluster and found that the
> plugin that comes with Heartbeat only works for certain models Not
> all. Look at this thread for more info
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/users/36640?do=post_view_threaded
>
>
> If you look in the source code of the apcmaster plugin it lists what
> APC devices are supported. In the end I wrote my own external plugin.
> Ok it was in Java but it worked and the cluster was up for months and
> I tested the stonith plugin 20 times in one day and no failure.
I was under the impression that the plugin worked for you with a couple
changes:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/users/36653?do=post_view_threaded#36653
Yeah true, doing that patch worked to remove that error but the entire
logic of the code was incompatible for my APC, that is why I wrote my
own plugin entirely. It is also why I sent you the source code
including all the telnet screens privately.
but that you were not happy with the security. I even sent you a patch
that would handle both the presence and absence of the 'Escape char...'
string but did not hear back if that was working as well (just
commenting out the string would break other folks who see that string).
Yes I was not happy with the security. The ideal thing to have is the
plugin using sshv2 but since I was busy I stuck with standard telnet
and dedicated a secure VPN to wrap it.
> I even gave the source code of the plugin I wrote to an IBM guy called
> Dave Blackshake (I think if I got his name right) for them to re-code
> it in C and add it to the hearbeat package. Even gave all the telnet
> screens. Havn't heard a thing in maybe 6 months or so.
Sorry, but Linux-HA is not my full-time job at IBM. I try to help out
with answering stonith issues since I have some expertise in the area
after converting the v1 stonith plugins to 2.0 back in 2005, but my real
responsibility lies in another project and resolving any PPC64-related
Linux-HA issues that may arise. Your plugin is still on my list, it
just hasn't bubbled to the top.
I understand your situation, in any case I have further developed the
plugin and squashed our some more bugs and added more features from
the one I sent you. If you know anyone who is willing to take my java
source code and convert it to C or whatever for use with HA, then that
would be great.
Sorry for any miss-understanding I may have caused.
--
"Nothing is impossible for the person that doesn't have to do it"
"The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability"
"If I were a roman statue, I'd be made alabastard"
--
George H
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