A fence device never starts on any node and the logs show "All nodes for resource <device> are unavailable, unclean, or shutting down" in a RHEL 6 or 7 High Availability cluster

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Issue

  • The fence agent in our cluster gets never started
  • stonith never starts the fence device in this cluster, and pengine reports "all nodes are unavailable, unclean, or shutting down"
Apr 23 10:55:23 [60440] node1.example.com    pengine:    debug: native_assign_node:      All nodes for resource scsifence are
unavailable, unclean or shutting down (node1: 1, -1000000)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7 with the High Availability Add On

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