The fencing agent fence_vmware_soap errors with the following message on RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 "Failed: Unable to obtain correct plug status or plug is not available"
Issue
- The fencing agent
fence_vmware_soaperrors with the following message on RHEL 5 and RHEL 6Failed: Unable to obtain correct plug status or plug is not available - When a VMware virtual machine cluster node is fenced it errors with the following message when using
fence_vmware_soapfencing agent:fenced[2118]: fence rhel63vm01 dev 0.0 agent fence_vmware_soap result: error from agent - Command 'fence_node' will fail with the following message:
[root@rhel63vm02 ~]# fence_node -vv rhel63vm01
fence rhel63vm01 dev 0.0 agent fence_vmware_soap result: error from agent
agent args: ssl=on uuid=564D8BD5-7A07-E6E1-1CF3-6F879A7A00C7 nodename=rhel63vm01 agent=fence_vmware_soap ipaddr=vmware.example.com login=administrator passwd=mypassword ssl=1
fence rhel63vm01 failed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add Ons)
VMwarevirtual machine
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