RHBA-2011:0834 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated fence-agents package that fixes several bugs, adds various
enhancements, and provides Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization support, is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Red Hat fence agents are a collection of scripts to handle remote power
management for several devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be
forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

This updated fence-agents package provides fixes for the following bugs:

• The fence_rsa script now presents a proper error message instead of a Python

backtrace when it encounters a problem. (BZ#652619)

• The fence_ipmi man page has been updated to include information required for

the HP iLO 3 (integrated Lights-Out) server management technology. (BZ#671086)

• The fence_wti script now works correctly with power switches that have more

than 15 plugs. (BZ#679159)

• The fence_cisco_ucs script no longer checks the validity of SSL certificates

by default. (BZ#691392)

• The fence_ipmilan script returned an incorrect exit code for the "monitor" and

"status" subcommands. (BZ#693426)

In addition, this updated package provides the following enhancements:

• The fence_ipmilan script now supports a new "diag" option. (BZ#679847)
• Support has been added for sub-organization for Cisco UCS Blade systems.

(BZ#678903)

• This updated fence-agents package includes source code that is now generated

automatically from the source code, and thus is always up-to-date. (BZ#678903)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated fence-agents package, which
resolves these issues and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 5 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 671086 - Fix manual page to describe usage of fence_ipmi with ilo3
• BZ - 671090 - Metadata (man pages) generation does not take different sorts of action into account
• BZ - 678903 - RFE: fence_cisco_ucs needs to support sub-organizations
• BZ - 679159 - fence_wti: Unable to parse output when splitted into several screens
• BZ - 679847 - [RFE] Add "diag" option to fence_ipmilan to support ipmi chassis power diag option
• BZ - 693426 - fence_ipmilan returns incorrect status on monitor op if chassis is powered off

CVEs

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References

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