I am sorry to get back to this topic, but I'm genuinely curious: Why is "demote" an option for the ticket "loss-policy" for multi-site-clusters but not for the normal "no-quorum-policy" of local clusters? This seems like a missing feature to me.
Best regards Christian 2014-04-07 9:54 GMT+02:00 Christian Ciach <derein...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I am using Corosync 2.0 with Pacemaker 1.1 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 (daily > builds until final release). > > My problem is as follows: I have a 2-node (plus a quorum-node) cluster to > manage a multistate-resource. One node should be the master and the other > one the slave. It is absolutely not allowed to have two masters at the same > time. To prevent a split-brain situation, I am also using a third node as a > quorum-only node (set to standby). There is no redundant connection because > the nodes are connected over the internet. > > If one of the two nodes managing the resource becomes disconnected, it > loses quorum. In this case, I want this resource to become a slave, but the > resource should never be stopped completely! This leaves me with a problem: > "no-quorum-policy=stop" will stop the resource, while > "no-quorum-policy=ignore" will keep this resource in a master-state. I > already tried to demote the resource manually inside the monitor-action of > the OCF-agent, but pacemaker will promote the resource immediately again. > > I am aware that I am trying the manage a multi-site-cluster and there is > something like the booth-daemon, which sounds like the solution to my > problem. But unfortunately I need the location-constraints of pacemaker > based on the score of the OCF-agent. As far as I know location-constraints > are not possible when using booth, because the 2-node-cluster is > essentially split into two 1-node-clusters. Is this correct? > > To conclude: Is it possible to demote a resource on quorum loss instead of > stopping it? Is booth an option if I need to manage the location of the > master based on the score returned by the OCF-agent? > >
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