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4.14. Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem

Table 4.15, “HP BladeSystem (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and later)” lists the fence device parameters used by fence_hpblade, the fence agent for HP BladeSystem.

Table 4.15. HP BladeSystem (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and later)

luci Field cluster.conf Attribute Description
Name name The name assigned to the HP Bladesystem device connected to the cluster.
IP Address or Hostname ipaddr The IP address or host name assigned to the HP BladeSystem device.
IP Port (optional) ipport The TCP port to use to connect to the device.
Login login The login name used to access the HP BladeSystem device. This parameter is required.
Password passwd The password used to authenticate the connection to the fence device.
Password Script (optional) passwd_script The script that supplies a password for access to the fence device. Using this supersedes the Password parameter.
Force Command Prompt cmd_prompt The command prompt to use. The default value is '\$'.
Missing port returns OFF instead of failure missing_as_off Missing port returns OFF instead of failure.
Power Wait (seconds) power_wait Number of seconds to wait after issuing a power off or power on command.
Power Timeout (seconds) power_timeout Number of seconds to continue testing for a status change after issuing a power off or power on command. The default value is 20.
Shell Timeout (seconds) shell_timeout Number of seconds to wait for a command prompt after issuing a command. The default value is 3.
Login Timeout (seconds) login_timeout Number of seconds to wait for a command prompt after login. The default value is 5.
Times to Retry Power On Operation retry_on Number of attempts to retry a power on operation. The default value is 1.
Use SSH secure Indicates that the system will use SSH to access the device. When using SSH, you must specify either a password, a password script, or an identity file.
SSH Options ssh_options SSH options to use. The default value is -1 -c blowfish.
Path to SSH Identity File identity_file The identity file for SSH.
Figure 4.11, “HP BladeSystem” shows the configuration screen for adding an HP BladeSystem fence device.
HP BladeSystem

Figure 4.11. HP BladeSystem

The following command creates a fence device instance for a BladeSystem device:
ccs -f cluster.conf --addfencedev hpbladetest1 agent=fence_hpblade cmd_prompt=c7000oa> ipaddr=192.168.0.1 \
 login=root passwd=password123 missing_as_off=on power_wait=60
The following is the cluster.conf entry for the fence_hpblade device:

 <fencedevices>
  <fencedevice agent="fence_hpblade" cmd_prompt="c7000oa>" ipaddr="hpbladeaddr" ipport="13456" \
   login="root" missing_as_off="on" name="hpbladetest1" passwd="password123" passwd_script="hpbladepwscr" \
   power_wait="60"/>
 </fencedevices>