How can I disable the sbd shared-storage watchdog daemon in a RHEL 7 High Availability cluster?

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Issue

  • I set up sbd in my pacemaker cluster, but then decided to go in a different direction, so I needed to remove it from the configuration. If I disable sbd, set have-watchdog=false and then restart the cluster, pacemaker fails immediately after starting with "no watchdog device configured"
[root@rhel7-node1 ~]# pcs cluster start --all
rhel7-node1.example.com: Starting Cluster...
rhel7-node2.example.com: Starting Cluster...
[root@rhel7-node1 ~]# 
Message from syslogd@rhel7-node1 at Oct  5 15:55:33 ...
 crmd[4230]:emerg: Shutting down pacemaker, no watchdog device configured
  • How can I remove sbd from my cluster?
  • What is the procedure to disable sbd?
  • My cluster fails to start after disabling sbd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • sbd, the shared-storage watchdog for High Availability clusters, was configured at one time, but now needs to be removed

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