One node that is expected to be without quorum fences multiple others when testing failure scenarios with ifdown in a RHEL 6 High Availability cluster
Issue
- We are testing cluster failures with
ifdown, and expect to see the failed node fenced, but instead it fences the other nodes despite it not having quorum - The node without quorum apparently fenced the other 2 nodes after taking its network interface down with
ifdown. - When we
ifdownthe cluster interface on a node, it somehow sees itself and another node as still members of the cluster
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 with the High Availability Add On
- A cluster of three or more nodes
- Using
ifdownto simulate network failures
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