Hi,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:39:32PM +0100, Niels de Carpentier wrote:
> I've written a custom stonith agent, but it is not totally clear what the
> status command should do.
> 
> Should it return the status of the stonith device, or the status of the
> host(s) controlled by the stonith device?

The status of the stonith device. It should verify if the stonith
is operational.

> Another issue is with a total hardware failure and ipmi. In this case the
> ipmi of the server might not work, and heartbeat cannot stonith the
> server. This results in problems with heartbeat, because it doesn't want
> to believe the server is actually dead.
> 
> Is there a way to manually tell heartbeat a server is really offline?

No, I don't think so. You could use the meatware stonith plugin
for that, but AFAIK there's no way to specify the order of
stonith devices. You may want to file an enhancement bugzilla for
that.

Thanks,

Dejan

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