On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Ulrich Windl
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Dominik Klein <[email protected]> schrieb am 16.12.2011 um 
>>>> 12:34 in
> Nachricht <[email protected]>:
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>>
>> On 12/15/2011 11:19 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I have a problem with some client-server software (I don't want to
>> > name it here) where client and server both need an etry for inetd
>> > (xinetd). It's also possible that client and server are running on
>> > one machine.
>> >
>> > For a cluster solution I set up the server to run on one node only
>> > (using -INFINITY location restrictions for the other nodes). I've
>> > added a RA that diesables the indetd service when the server is to be
>> > down, and enabled it when the server is to be up.
>> >
>> > Summary of a longer story: Even when the resource is never intended
>> > to run anywhere else, the cluster checks the indetd service through
>> > the RA on every node, and then complains:
>> >
>> > Dec 15 09:10:55 h03 pengine: [15876]: WARN: See
>> > http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/FAQ#Resource_is_Too_Active for more
>> > information.
>>
>> Then your RA is wrong. It should not say that things are running when
>> they are not.
>
> Hi!
>
> Please read again: The RA is right;

No. Its not.  We check the resource state everywhere, not just where
it's "supposed" to live.

> the software just uses some strange concepts. I need to start some thing when 
> it's down on the local node, whatever happened on the other nodes. Maybe I 
> should just use a clone to start it everywhere, but I'm not sure I fully 
> understood clones and their constraints thoroughly.
>
> Regards,
> Ulrich
>
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Dominik
>>
>> > I'm afraid this might cause unintended fencing at some time.
>> >
>> > Are there any rather clean solutions for this problem?
>> >
>> > I was thinking to send the node's name to the RA that check's the
>> > inetd service, and to make him lie about the state on the other
>> > nodes, but I think that is terrible solution.
>> >
>> > Cool ideas?
>> >
>> > Regards, Ulrich
>> >
>> >
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