Re: [Linux-cluster] Fencing Device Question

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Russek
My question is what (if anything) can RHCS/GFS do to determine the health/presence/operation of fencing devices? If it can do something to monitor the fencing devices, and discovers a bad fencing device, what will it do? For example, if I unplug the network cable for the heartbeat, the node

[Linux-cluster] Fencing Device Question

2008-06-03 Thread Brandon Young
In my GFS cluster, I use DRAC cards as the fencing device for each node. Yesterday, I had a situation where the DRAC card on a particular node had failed, and would not allow remote logins, etc, but it still returned pings. I don't know how long the card had been dead, and I only noticed because I