Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI PR fencing

2009-02-05 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:10:34AM +0530, Rajeev P wrote: > Hi, > > Consider a two node RHEL5 cluster that is configured with SCSI PR fencing > but without a qdisk. In the event of network split, nodes will attempt to > fence the other one. One of the node's (node that lost the race) key will be >

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue with GFS

2009-02-17 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Can you dump the registered keys and reservation key? # get a list of keys resgitered for a device sg_persist -i -k # tells you which key holding the reservation sg_persist -i -r It appears that this node is trying to access /dev/sda but is not registered with the device. WERO reservations wi

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue with GFS

2009-02-17 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:23:20PM -0700, Gary Romo wrote: > > We had this issue a long time ago. > What we did was remove the sg3_utils rpm and then did a chkconfig > scsi_reserve off Ahh, yes. If you don't intend to use SCSI-3 reservations, you definitely need to turn off scsi_reserve. Thanks

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue with GFS

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:30:04PM -0600, Alan A wrote: > Hello all! > Thanks for the help. I have removed sg3_utils package, and rebooted all the > nodes. As well I removed any SCSI fencing entry from cluster.conf file. > > I still have a problem getting GFS up on one of the nodes. I checked the

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue with GFS

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:07:12AM -0600, Alan A wrote: > > Thank you Ryan. This was totally correct - yet it will not let me remove the > reservation. Here is the output of several commands I tried: > > [r...@fendev04 ~]# sg_persist -o -C -K 0xb0b40001 /dev/gfs_acct61/acct61 > HPOPEN-V

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue with GFS

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:00:21PM -0600, Alan A wrote: > Thank you very much, that did the trick. I will remove sg3_utils package > now. Hopefully this will never happen again. I had to remove SCSI > reservations from 4 different volumes. Any suggestions on how to avoid this > in the future? I'm

Re: [Linux-cluster] fence_scsi support in multipath env in RHEL5.3

2009-06-10 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:11:21PM +0530, Rajeev P wrote: > I wanted to know if fence_scsi is supported in a multipath environment for > RHEL5.3 release. Yes, it is supported. > In earlier releases of RHEL5 fence_scsi was not supported in a multipath > environment for RHEL5.3 release. If I am no

Re: [Linux-cluster] fence_scsi support in multipath env in RHEL5.3

2009-06-10 Thread Ryan O';Hara
ltipathd: 8:176: mark as failed > Jun 10 23:32:03 rmamseslab07 multipathd: mpath0: remaining active paths: 3 > > > > -Original Message- > From: linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com > [mailto:linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ryan O'Hara > Sent: Wednesday

Re: [Linux-cluster] Could some one explain why SCSI_Fence Agent can not be used in 2 nodes cluster?

2009-06-14 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:21:08AM +1000, yu song wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to build a 2 nodes cluster on rhcl 5.3, and looking for what > fencing method I could use. > > On the storage side, it is EMC clarion and supports scsi 3 reservation. > > So I'm thinking to use fence_scsi agent to d

Re: [Linux-cluster] Deadlock when using clvmd + OpenAIS + Corosync

2010-01-13 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21:14AM -0500, Evan Broder wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Christine Caulfield > wrote: > > On 11/01/10 09:38, Christine Caulfield wrote: > >> > >> On 11/01/10 09:32, Evan Broder wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Christine Caulfield > >>> wro

Re: [Linux-cluster] Fencing through iLO and functioning of kdump

2010-09-01 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 10:48:23AM -0400, Ben Turner wrote: > Here is a kbase on fence scsi: > > https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-17809 > > It should answer any questions you have: > > https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-17809 > > Usually I try the fence_scsi_test to be sure my devices a

Re: [Linux-cluster] SNMP support with IBM Blade Center Fence Agent

2011-02-28 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:43:10PM +0530, Parvez Shaikh wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question related to fence agents and SNMP alarms. > > Fence Agent can fail to fence the failed node for various reason; e.g. with > my bladecenter fencing agent, I sometimes get message saying bladecenter > fenc

Re: [Linux-cluster] Redhat without qdisk

2012-04-12 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On 04/12/2012 10:18 AM, emmanuel segura wrote: That's right you'll found your cluster partitioned and if you "" as redhat setting our cluster maybe you get data corruption How? What fence agent are you using? I've used this configuration for years and never had data corruption. Because eve

Re: [Linux-cluster] [PATCH] typo in fence_kdump_send.8

2012-05-07 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Thanks. I applied this patch to the upstream git repo this morning. Ryan On 05/07/2012 04:08 AM, Masatake YAMATO wrote: Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO diff --git a/fence/agents/kdump/fence_kdump_send.8 b/fence/agents/kdump/fence_kdump_send.8 index 4cec124..ab95836 100644 --- a/fence/agents/kd

Re: [Linux-cluster] Options for fencing at the node level .

2012-07-02 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On 06/28/2012 09:32 PM, Zama Ques wrote: Hi All , I need to setup HA clustering using redhat cluster suite on two nodes , primary concern being high availability . Before trying it on production , I am trying to configure the setup on two desktop machines . For storage , I am creating a parti

Re: [Linux-cluster] Fence methods

2012-09-06 Thread Ryan O';Hara
On 09/06/2012 03:45 PM, Chip Burke wrote: Now that ricci is figured out, I am having some issues with fencing. It seems VMWare Fence works very well, but our GFS2 volume is not available until it receives a "success" status. This gives us maybe 30-60 seconds of time where we cannot access the G

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS, SELinux denial

2007-08-28 Thread Ryan O';Hara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having issues with a server running gfs and an SELinux error. When /etc/init.d/gfs start or service gfs start is run, it results in a SELinux denial. If mount -a -t gfs is run as root it works fine. The scripts also work if setenforce 0 is used. Running setsebool -P

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS with Dell MD3000?

2007-08-28 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Christopher McCrory wrote: Has anyone tried GFS with the Dell MD3000 array? This is a SAS hardware raid array that can support four server connections including shared access. (very nice piece of hardware). I have no experience with GFS (yet). Yes. I've tested GFS with this array using th

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS, SELinux denial

2007-08-29 Thread Ryan O';Hara
is problem. Let me know if you encounter any other problem with gfs/selinux. Ryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan O'Hara Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:44 PM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS, SELinux

Re: [Linux-cluster] RHEL4.5, GFS and selinux, are they playing nice?

2007-09-12 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Roger Peña wrote: is this related to the fact that selinux policy stated this: genfscon gfs / system_u:object_r:nfs_t Yes. This is what would be used for a filesystem that does not support selinux xattrs. In RHEL4.5, SELinux xattr support was added to GFS. However... should I follow wha

Re: [Linux-cluster] Cannot join two nodes together

2007-09-26 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Ozarchuk, John D wrote: I have two nodes on the same subnet, can ping each other, are both alive, both are members of a two-node cluster. When I start cman on both nodes at the same time it says “X not a cluster member after 60 sec post_join_delay”. The output of clustat shows that the other

Re: [Linux-cluster] CLVM and SCSI-3 Reservations

2007-10-19 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Sadek, Abdel wrote: Is CLVM a requirement for SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations to work on a RHEL 5.0 native cluster? Yes. I have a 2-node cluster. If I build my file system directly on the devices /dev/sdb /dev/sdd etc.., there are no Persistent Reservations being established on my storage arr

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue

2007-10-31 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings all, I have 2 vmware esx servers, each hitting a NetApp over FS, and each with 3 RHCS cluster nodes trying to mount a gfs volume. All of the nodes (1,2,& 3) on esx-01 can mount the volume fine, but none of the nodes in the second esx box can mount the gfs volu

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue

2007-11-02 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Just out of curiosity ... what scsi_reserve enabled by default? It shouldn't be. If it is I'll have to fix that. Christopher Barry wrote: Are you intentionally trying to use scsi reservations as a fence method? No. In fact I thought the scsi_reservation service may be *causing* the issue,

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue

2007-11-02 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Christopher Barry wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:44 -0500, Ryan O'Hara wrote: Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings all, I have 2 vmware esx servers, each hitting a NetApp over FS, and each with 3 RHCS cluster nodes trying to mount a gfs volume. All of the nodes (1,2,& 3) on esx-01

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue

2007-11-02 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Christopher Barry wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan O'Hara Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1:43 PM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue Just out of curiosity ... what scsi_re

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue

2007-11-08 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Christopher Barry wrote: Okay. I had some other issues to deal with, but now I'm back to this, and let me get you all up to speed on what I have done, and what I do not understand about all of this. status: esx-01: contains nodes 1 thru 3 esx-02: contains nodes 4 thru 6 esx-01: all 3 cluster n

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi reservation issue

2007-11-09 Thread Ryan O';Hara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan, Thank you so much for your replies. I tracked down the registration and reserve to the first cluster node, by converting the hex value to the IP per your instructions. All nodes reported only this one registration. On that node, I try: # sg_persist -C --out /dev

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi_watchdog

2007-11-21 Thread Ryan O';Hara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't notice that something had changed until now after I upgraded all of the nodes. I see in /etc/cluster the following; -rw-r- 1 root root 1249 Nov 10 18:40 .cluster.conf -rw-r- 1 root root 1249 Nov 13 09:50 cluster.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root34

Re: [Linux-cluster] scsi_watchdog

2007-11-21 Thread Ryan O';Hara
you want scsi_watchdog to run. I'm guessing that neither of these apply to use, and therefore the scsi_watchdog is having no effect. It is disabled by default. On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:31:32 -0600, Ryan O'Hara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't notice that something had c

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS, xattr and SElinux

2007-12-05 Thread Ryan O';Hara
jr wrote: Hi Guys, does GFS not work with SELinux at all, even though SElinux seems to initialize the Filesystem right after the mount correctly, and the files show labels? (ls -lZ) (this is CentOS 5.1 with the most recent packages, using GFS non2). it seems as if i ran into something like that.

Re: [Linux-cluster] RE: scsi reservation

2008-01-11 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Did you pull the source from cvs or did you grab one of the tar.gz files? Ryan Alexandre Racine wrote: You are right, that package was not installed. So now I installed the package, and recompiled "fence", but "fence_scsi" is still not there in /sbin/ Any more idea? (Thanks for the first hi

Re: [Linux-cluster] Fence don't work with HP iLo2 (fw.1.42

2008-01-14 Thread Ryan O';Hara
m.. mm.. wrote: I don't get it working: This error message comes..when i try to fence node2. Jan 12 20:38:57 xxx4n1 fence_node[20776]: agent "fence_ipmilan" reports: Rebooting machine @ IPMI:192.168.69.4...ipmilan: Failed to connect after 30 seconds Failed Jan 12 20:38:57 xxx4n1 ccsd[3239]: Att

[Linux-cluster] SCSI Reservations & Red Hat Cluster Suite

2008-03-28 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Attached is the latest version of the "Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Cluster Suite" document for review. Feel free to send questions and comments. -Ryan Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Cluster Suite Ryan O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI Reservations & Red Hat Cluster Suite

2008-03-28 Thread Ryan O';Hara
fence_scsi), using an msdos partitioned disk seems to work fine. This is only in testing but I haven't seen any issues as of yet. Ryan O'Hara wrote: Attached is the latest version of the "Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Cluster Suite" document for review. Feel fr

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI Reservations & Red Hat Cluster Suite

2008-03-28 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Tomasz Sucharzewski wrote: Hello, Ryan O'Hara wrote: 4 - Limitations ... - Multipath devices are not currently supported. What is the reason - it is strongly required to use at least two HBA in a SAN network, which is useless when using scsi reservation. It has to do with h

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI reservation conflicts after update

2008-04-02 Thread Ryan O';Hara
I went back and investigated why this might happen. Seems that I had seen it before but could not recall how this sort of thing happens. For 4.6, the scsi_reserve script should only be run if you intend to use SCSI reservations as a fence mechanism, as you correctly pointed out at the end of

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI-fence configure

2008-04-07 Thread Ryan O';Hara
m.. mm.. wrote: Hi Ryan or somebody else.. I have one question about your documentation about RedHat and scsi_reservation fence what you have write. About this Storage Requimenents: You write like this. "all shared storage must use LVM2 cluster volumes" If i have 2 cluster-nodes and shared /da

Re: [Linux-cluster] Changes in libccs behaviour (PLEASE READ!)

2008-06-09 Thread Ryan O';Hara
Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: ccs_test(8): not fully completed yet (another email will follow). ccs_test should go away. It was never intended to be used as a production tool, it was simply intended to be a tool to test ccs. Futhermore, the fact that you must create connections and then use those