nfsnotify resource fails to start with 'unknown error' and logs show "sm-notify[<pid>]: my_name 'X.X.X.X' is unusable: Name or service not known" in a RHEL 6 or 7 High Availability cluster with pacemaker

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Issue

  • The nfsnotify resource I've configured won't start, and pcs status shows 'unknown error'
Failed actions:
    notify173_start_0 on rhel6-node2-pcmk.example.com 'unknown error' (1): call=167, status=complete, last-rc-change='Tue Jan 20 15:51:14 2015', queued=0ms, exec=95ms
    notify173_start_0 on rhel6-node1-pcmk.example.com 'unknown error' (1): call=239, status=complete, last-rc-change='Tue Jan 20 15:51:06 2015', queued=0ms, exec=108ms
  • When I start my NFS resource group, the nfsnotify resource doesn't start and the logs show an error from sm-notify~
Jan 20 16:06:59 rhel6-node1-pcmk sm-notify[23339]: Version 1.2.3 starting
Jan 20 16:06:59 rhel6-node1-pcmk sm-notify[23339]: my_name '192.168.143.173' is unusable: Name or service not known

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • pacemaker
  • One or more nfsnotify resources configured in the cluster CIB
    • A nfsnotify resource configured with a source_host attribute value of an IP address, as opposed to a hostname

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