"Stefan K" <shado...@gmx.net> writes: > OK I see, but it would be good if somebody mark one of this as deprecated and > then delete it. So that noone get confused about these. >
The external/* agents are not deprecated, though. Future agents will be implemented in the fence-agents framework, but the existing agents are still being used (not by RH, but by SUSE at least). Cheers, Kristoffer > best regards > Stefan > >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018 um 18:26 Uhr >> Von: "Ken Gaillot" <kgail...@redhat.com> >> An: "Cluster Labs - All topics related to open-source clustering welcomed" >> <users@clusterlabs.org> >> Betreff: Re: [ClusterLabs] difference between external/ipmi and fence_ipmilan >> >> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 12:00 +0200, Stefan K wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > can somebody tell me the difference between external/ipmi and >> > fence_ipmilan? Are there preferences? >> > Is one of these more common or has some advantages? >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> > best regards >> > Stefan >> >> The distinction is mostly historical. At one time, there were two >> different open-source clustering environments, each with its own set of >> fence agents. The community eventually settled on Pacemaker as a sort >> of merged evolution of the earlier environments, and so it supports >> both styles of fence agents. Thus, you often see an "external/*" agent >> and a "fence_*" agent available for the same physical device. >> >> However, they are completely different implementations, so there may be >> substantive differences as well. I'm not familiar enough with these two >> to address that, maybe someone else can. >> -- >> Ken Gaillot <kgail...@redhat.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org >> https://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org >> Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf >> Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org > https://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org > Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf > Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org -- // Kristoffer Grönlund // kgronl...@suse.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org https://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org