How to trigger a vmcore of a cluster node when pacemaker main daemon is shutting down

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Issue

A node within the cluster is experiencing an issue and the pacemaker main daemon and its subdaemons are shutting down.
A message indicating the exit can be found on /var/log/pacemaker/pacemaker.log

pacemaker-controld  [XXXXXX] (crmd_exit)       notice: Forcing immediate exit with status 100 (Fatal error occurred, will not respawn)
pacemaker-controld  [XXXXXX] (crm_exit)        info: Exiting pacemaker-controld | with status 100

After the above message the node is fenced by the cluster.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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