How can I diagnose fence_ipmilan failures in RHEL 5, 6, 7, or 8?
Issue
fence_ipmilan
fencing fails when a node goes missing- A node is leaving the cluster and another node attempts to fence it with
fence_ipmilan
, but fails.
Jul 23 15:45:28 node2 fenced[12831]: fencing node node1
Jul 23 15:45:28 node2 fenced[12831]: fence node1 dev 0.0 agent fence_ipmilan result: error from agent
Jul 23 15:45:28 node2 fenced[12831]: fence node1 failed
Jul 23 15:45:28 node2 fenced[12831]: fence node1 dev 0.0 agent fence_ipmilan result: error from agent
Jul 23 15:45:28 node2 fenced[12831]: fence node1 failed
- How can I diagnose failures to fence a node with
fence_ipmilan
?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, 7, 8 with the High Availability Add On
- One or more cluster nodes with hardware that supports IPMI power management via
fence_ipmilan
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