Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Kruse
Hello, Alexander Fisher wrote: A word of warning. If the two PDUs can't communicate (perhaps a switch is down or a bad cable) and you fire the reset command at the PDU you can talk to, it'll appear to have worked (from the clusters perspective), but obviously won't. I think this warning

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-25 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:02:52AM +0200, Peter Kruse wrote: Hello, Alexander Fisher wrote: A word of warning. If the two PDUs can't communicate (perhaps a switch is down or a bad cable) and you fire the reset command at the PDU you can talk to, it'll appear to have worked

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-25 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 06:30:15PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: On 19 May 2010 12:20, Dejan Muhamedagic deja...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: On 19 May 2010 10:55, Dejan Muhamedagic deja...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi, On Tue,

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 18:30 +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: I think I'll use IPMI and rackpdu in the same configuration. That is exactly what I will eventually try (assuming I ever get any time to work on my test cluster some more). It is clear that, no matter what I do, I cannot prepare for

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-19 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:10:42PM +, Chris Card wrote: From: wo...@ucar.edu To: linux-ha@lists.linux-ha.org Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:17:04 -0600 Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question Do you know that on APC PDUs, you can group outlets across

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-19 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: We have a pair of servers in a cluster plugged into a pair of APC rack-mounted PDU's of the sort that could be controlled by this stonith plugin. My problem is that these are dual power supply servers, which means I

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-19 Thread Alexander Fisher
On 19 May 2010 10:55, Dejan Muhamedagic deja...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: We have a pair of servers in a cluster plugged into a pair of APC rack-mounted PDU's of the sort that could be controlled by this stonith plugin. My

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-19 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: On 19 May 2010 10:55, Dejan Muhamedagic deja...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: We have a pair of servers in a cluster plugged into a pair of APC rack-mounted

[Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Fisher
We have a pair of servers in a cluster plugged into a pair of APC rack-mounted PDU's of the sort that could be controlled by this stonith plugin. My problem is that these are dual power supply servers, which means I would have to shut down two outlets that are on on two different PDUs to

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-18 Thread Greg Woods
Do you know that on APC PDUs, you can group outlets across several physical PDUs? I've got a bit more testing to do, but this seems to work ok. The plugin is configured to talk to just one outlet on one of the PDUs and the PDU does the rest. No, I didn't know you could do this. I will have

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-18 Thread Chris Card
From: wo...@ucar.edu To: linux-ha@lists.linux-ha.org Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:17:04 -0600 Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question Do you know that on APC PDUs, you can group outlets across several physical PDUs? I've got a bit more testing to do, but this seems

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-06 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:54:00AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:21 +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: rackpdu also works over the network. The lights-out device has its own network interface. Presumably both should be connected to some management network. Where's

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-05 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 01:21:44PM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: We have a pair of servers in a cluster plugged into a pair of APC rack-mounted PDU's of the sort that could be controlled by this stonith plugin. My problem is that these are dual power supply servers, which means I would have to

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 13:29 +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: If these servers have a lights-out device and the power distribution is fairly reliable, that could be an alternative for fencing. They do have an IPMI device and it does work. I am trying to insulate against a failure of the NIC or

Re: [Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-05 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:06:39AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 13:29 +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: If these servers have a lights-out device and the power distribution is fairly reliable, that could be an alternative for fencing. They do have an IPMI device

[Linux-HA] stonith external/rackpdu question

2010-05-04 Thread Greg Woods
We have a pair of servers in a cluster plugged into a pair of APC rack-mounted PDU's of the sort that could be controlled by this stonith plugin. My problem is that these are dual power supply servers, which means I would have to shut down two outlets that are on on two different PDUs to