On 3/29/2010 at 10:24 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hi All, 
>  
> I'm looking for a good document that can take someoen very new to  
> LinuxHA (me) and clearly explain how stonith is implemented and how to  
> configure it. Most of what I've found so far is very cryptic and frankly  
> dose not explain how to configure stonith in a working cluster. For my  
> example, I have 3 working IP Takeover clusters running httpd.  What I  
> want to do should be simple I would think. If there is a takeover, kill  
> the other node. I have a command  that works very well in the  
> environment I am using LinuxHA but I can't find any documentation that  
> helps me understand how stonith is implemented and configured. I need to  
> understand this first. 
>  
> Can someone point me to some good documentation on stonith? Where do I  
> start?

Try http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/crm_fencing.html

Also various links at http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Documentation
(in particular Clusters from Scratch and Configuration Explained).

Maybe http://ourobengr.com/ha (but that's more about what can go wrong
with STONITH in a two node cluster, than about how to configure STONITH).

Note that whether or not STONITH occurs for a given failure depends on
how you've configured your resources.  It'll always trigger if a node
is (apparently) completely dead, or (by default) if a resource stop op
fails.  If a resource can't start, or is running then fails, STONITH
won't occur unless you set the on-fail property of that operation to
"fence".  You should find more detail about this in the Configuration
Explained document.

HTH,

Tim


-- 
Tim Serong <[email protected]>
Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc.



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