Fencing agent fence_apc fails on 5.X versions of the firmware

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

The fencing script fence_apc fails to login into the APC fence devices APC8953, APC8941, APC8965 and the error is returned:

# fence_apc --ip pdu1.example.com --username apc --password apc --plug 1 --action status
Unable to connect/login to fencing device

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add on)

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