Why did pacemaker report that stonith devices were active on multiple nodes during a fence event?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Stonith device failed to stop in a Pacemaker cluster.
  • During a fence event, pacemaker reported that stonith devices that had previously been in "Started" state on the node being fenced were active on multiple nodes and attempted to stop them. The stonith devices failed to stop and resulted in more nodes being fenced off.
May 09 04:56:52 [3108] Node01    pengine:    error: native_create_actions: Resource fence_node02 (stonith::fence_ipmilan) is active on 2 nodes attempting recovery
May 09 04:56:52 [3108] Node01    pengine:  warning: native_create_actions: See http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/FAQ#Resource_is_Too_Active for more information.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add-on)

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