On Feb 20, 2008 11:53 AM, Dave Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doug Lochart wrote:
> > I finished flashing and configuring my IPMI devices on my two nodes so
> > that I can implement STONITH resources.  I have used the vendor
> > supplied (SuperMicro) command line and GUI tools to access and control
> > the IPMI devices so I know they work.  So I set about to test them
> > with STONITH.
> >
> > For IPMI this is what you are required to have version 1 style.
> >
> > stonith -t external/ipmi -p "hostname ipaddr username password"
> >
> > Now the docs did not specify but I assume that hostname is the name of
> > the machine to be controlled AND the ipaddr is the ip of the IPMI
> > device on that machine.  It is the only combination that makes any
> > sense.  Following http://linux-ha.org/ConfiguringStonithPlugins I see
> > that you can run it on the command line and pass an additional -l
> > parameter to get a list of hosts controlled by the plugin.
> >
> > When I run it I get the following error and do not know what the problem is:
> >
> > ** INFO: external_run_cmd: Calling
> > '/usr/lib64/stonith/plugins/external/ipmi status' returned 256
> > 10.43.120.134
> >
> > When I run it with -S to get the status I get the following:
> > ** INFO: external_run_cmd: Calling
> > '/usr/lib64/stonith/plugins/external/ipmi status' returned 256
> > stonith: external/ipmi device not accessible.
> >
> > Anybody have any suggestions?  I do not see anyway to turn up
> > verbosity nor do I see any logs laying around.
> >
> Give the almighty and undocumented -d option a try...

This did it!  I was able to see in the debug that stonith requires
ipmitool to be installed.  Once I did that I was able to test.

> > I am at the point where I was going to download the source for the
> > plugin but I know I am opening up a can of worms and I really don't
> > have a week to come up to speed on the code.
> >
> The plugin is a relatively simple script that has required operations
> which interact with the device.  Check out:
>
> http://www.linux-ha.org/ExternalStonithPlugins

Thanks for that.  It may come in handy later!


> > Can I make stonith use the existing ipmcli program that came with the
> > motherboard?  I have been using it successfully to test so far.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Regards,

Doug



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