Setting stonith-watchdog-timeout to positive value does not work anymore

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • SBD won't allow to modify stonith-watchdog-timeout to a positive value
  • running pcs property set stonith-watchdog-timeout=30 returns an error
  • "Error: stonith-watchdog-timeout can only be unset or set to 0 while SBD is enabled with devices, use --force to override"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 or higher (with the High Availability Add-On)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (with the High Availability Add-On)
  • Pacemaker
  • fencing with fence_sbd

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