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4.10. ePowerSwitch

Table 4.11, “ePowerSwitch” lists the fence device parameters used by fence_eps, the fence agent for ePowerSwitch.

Table 4.11. ePowerSwitch

luci Field cluster.conf Attribute Description
Name name A name for the ePowerSwitch device connected to the cluster.
IP Address or Hostname ipaddr The IP address or host name assigned to the device.
Login login The login name used to access the device.
Password passwd The password used to authenticate the connection to the device.
Password Script (optional) passwd_script The script that supplies a password for access to the fence device. Using this supersedes the Password parameter.
Name of Hidden Page hidden_page The name of the hidden page for the device.
Times to Retry Power On Operation retry_on Number of attempts to retry a power on operation. The default value is 1.
Port (Outlet) Number port Physical plug number or name of virtual machine.
Delay (optional) delay The number of seconds to wait before fencing is started. The default value is 0.
Figure 4.9, “ePowerSwitch” shows the configuration screen for adding an ePowerSwitch fence device.
ePowerSwitch

Figure 4.9. ePowerSwitch

The following command creates a fence device instance for an ePowerSwitch device:
ccs -f cluster.conf --addfencedev epstest1 agent=fence_eps ipaddr=192.168.0.1 login=root passwd=password123 \
 hidden_page=hidden.htm
The following is the cluster.conf entry for the fence_eps device:

 <fencedevices>
   <fencedevice agent="fence_eps" hidden_page="hidden.htm" ipaddr="192.168.0.1" login="root" name="epstest1" \
    passwd="password123"/>
 </fencedevices>