On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 11:04:22PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote: > On 08/07/2012 08:18 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:14:27AM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote: > >> The LRM treats operation timeouts as ERROR:s - not just failed > >> operations that give warnings. This violates the meaning of ERROR: > >> messages in the code. > >> > >> We reserved ERROR: messages for things that the software did not expect > >> - and therefore possibly could not be properly recovered from. In this > >> case, the behavior is perfectly expected and the condition will be > >> properly recovered from. It just means the operation in question failed. > >> > >> An sample message: > >> ERROR: process_lrm_event: LRM operation agent-da:3_monitor_5000 > >> (47) Timed Out (timeout=60000ms) > >> > >> Because of this one message, you can't tell customers "If you ever have > >> an ERROR: message, the HA software has failed". > >> > >> This ought to just be a warning, like any other failed action... > > I guess that ERROR is used because resource agents use the same > > severity when reporting failures they cannot recover from. In > > this case, the RA won't log anything, so the lrmd does that on > > its behalf. That seems OK to me. The other option would be to > > remove the ERROR severity log messages in all RA, because a > > resource problem should normally always be recoverable. > The exceptions that print ERROR: should be relegated to things like "The > CRM gave me a command I didn't understand, or referenced a resource that > I don't know about" -- and similar things that really shouldn't happen. > > Or that's how it seems to me anyway...
Turns out that this comes from the crmd not lrmd. The lrmd actually does issue just a warning. I see your point though I'd still be reluctant not to log an error somewhere, because all other resource errors are logged at that severity. Cheers, Dejan > -- > Alan Robertson <al...@unix.sh> - @OSSAlanR > > "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim > from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce > _______________________________________________________ > Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev > Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/ _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
