Hi,

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:59:45PM +0100, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this e-mail is meant as a help for those fighting with
> RILOE II devices and Linux-HA.
> 
> I just had to setup Linux-HA on two HP DL385 machines,
> CentOS 5.5, stock heartbeat 2.1.3 binaries provided by the

external/riloe in 2.1.3 is, alas, broken. As well as quite a few
other things: you'd be much better off with the latter release.

> distribution. The owners of the machines told us that
> they use RILOE II devices, but the "external/riloe" stonith
> resource didn't want to work, "returned 256" was reported
> by "stonith -t external/riloe ... status". Neither the old script
> provided by heartbeat-2.1.3 nor the newest one found at
> http://hg.linux-ha.org/glue/file/61a7a218b5aa/lib/plugins/stonith/external/riloe
> worked, both timed out.

It'd be good to know details. Do you really think that this
plugin is distributed as non-functional.

> Two days of reading mail archives later and trying out several
> offered solutions, nothing helped.
> 
> Then the real solution came as an idea or rather suspicion:
> could it be that HP switched to the industry-standard from
> their own homegrown solution?
> 
> THE ANSWER IS YES. LATEST RILOE II DEVICES USE IPMI.

No need to shout, most of lights-out devices support IPMI.

> If you want to use external/ipmi, you only need to modify it
> a little, though. Instead of "-I lan", you have to use "-I lanplus".

Then on next upgrade, your stonith resource is going to fail.
Though, the interface parameter has been added post-2.1.3.

Thanks,

Dejan


> This way, STONITH works.
> 
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
> 
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