On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:32:20PM -0400, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> Steven Dake <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >Jul 29 12:24:15 pol6opsintmr2 openais[29062]: [MAIN ] Using default 
> > >multicast address of 239.192.184.181
> 
> > cman does not read /etc/ais/openais.conf.  Instead it uses its own 
> > configuration file that is read from /etc/cluster/cluster.xml.  The 
> > multicast address for cman is autogenerated by applying a hash function 
> > to the cluster name and using it as the lower 16 bits of the multicast 
> > address.  A cman cluster will always have a multicast address of 
> > 239.192.x.x where x.x is the 16 bit hash produced from the cluster name.
> 
> Thank you.  This leaves me puzzled about more things, though:
> 
> 1. You seem to be saying that the log messages I see labelled
>    "openais" are not actually from ais, but from some piece of
>    the cman servce (ccsd?).  So, where is aisexec logging to?

This might help understand how cman configures openais:
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/HomePage?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=aiscman.pdf

cman is an openais plugin, so you won't see a seperate pid for it.

> 2. Like I said, I *do* see multicast traffic on the address I
>    configured in openais.conf, and I do see aisexec bound to
>    that IP.  I do not see anything attempting to use this hash-derived
>    default address.  When you say "a cman cluster will always have ..."
>    do you mean that the cluster will use *both* multicast addresses?
> 
> In my case, the cluster is failing, which is why I'm looking into
> what openais is doing, so the fact that I don't see anything using
> the 239.192 address doesn't mean nothing would be using it if cluster
> startup were successful.  However, there's no actual "cman" entity
> anymore in CentOS/RHEL 5, and my ccsd is running.
>   -- Cos
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