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 > > -- > ---------------------------------- > Zoltán Böszörményi > Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH > Gröhrmühlgasse 26 > A-2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria > Web: http://www.postgresql-support.de > http://www.postgresql.at/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
