Hi, On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:00:56PM +0200, Andreas Mock wrote: > Hi Dejan, hi all, > > we're using HAv2 and the external stonith plugin 'ibmrsa' for some > time now in a productive environment. > > Sadly 'ibmrsa' is not 'stable'. We use it with monitoring action every 300 > seconds. > But time by time I get errors indicating unknown communication errors between > the IBMmpcli agent and the RSA-board. I don't know why. This lead to complete > failure of the stonith resource about every three days.
We never encountered problems of that kind. Perhaps a fw upgrade would help. You should also report a problem with your hw supplier. > Besides of that IBMmpcli agent is using much CPU time. It's Java :) > That was the reason I decided to write a new implementation based on > telnet access to the RSA board. Some of you may remember several questions > of mine regarding stonith plugin. :-) Another advantage of this is, that the > stonith plugin can be adapted simply for any kind of stonith device with > telnet access. Cool. BTW, there's also ipmi. Did you try that? I think that IBM BMC supports ipmi. > To give something back to the HA comunity I would like to offer this piece > of software. It's working stable for several days now in our environment, so > that > I'm confident to offer a mature functionality. > > If you're interested in having a look at it and probably accepting it for the > HA package I would upload it. Sure. Just post the code. Please contact Alan Robertson to clarify the legal stuff. Thanks, Dejan > Best regards > Andreas Mock > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstärkeren E-Mail-Postfach! > > Mehr Infos unter http://produkte.web.de/club/?mc=021131 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
