pcs fails with "Error: unable to locate command: /usr/sbin/cibadmin" when a large number of resources, constraints, or stonith devices exist in the configuration in a RHEL 6 or 7 High Availability cluster with pacemaker

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Issue

  • While trying to add a new package to a pacemaker cluster, got following error message:
[root@node1 manual_cluster]# pcs resource create clusterIP ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 ip=10.10.10.2  cidr_netmask=22 nic=bond0
Error: unable to locate command: /usr/sbin/cibadmin

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • pacemaker
  • pcs releases prior to 0.9.137-13.el7 in RHEL 7.
  • pcs releases prior to 0.9.123-9.el6 in RHEL 6
  • A large number of resources, stonith devices, or constraints
  • Using pcs to further modify the configuration in some way

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