Chris Card wrote: > [Apologies if this is a FAQ] > > I'm planning to use stonith with heartbeat (v1), and I understand that to do > this I need a "stonith" or "stonith_host" line in my ha.cf to get heartbeat > to call the stonith plugin with the appropriate parameters. > > What is not clear to me is under what conditions heartbeat will call the > stonith plugin to power off a machine - is this documented anywhere? > Not sure if a complete or even partially complete list exists, but in general a node is STONITHed whenever heartbeat needs to make sure that it is not using cluster resources. Here is a nice little article that includes some discussion on fencing:
http://techthoughts.typepad.com/managing_computers/2007/10/split-brain-quo.html > Chris > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Messenger: Thanks for 10 great years—enjoy free winks and > emoticons. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
