What does the message "Totem is unable to form a cluster because of an operating system or network fault. " mean?
Issue
- Cluster is reporting in logs messages like below:
Oct 20 01:29:12 node42 corosync[217177]: [TOTEM ] The network interface is down.
[....]
Oct 20 01:29:23 node42 corosync[217177]: [MAIN ] Totem is unable to form a cluster because of an operating system or network fault (reason: totem is continuously in gather state). The most common cause of this message is that the local firewall is configured improperly.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8 with High-Availability or Resilient Storage Add-on
corosync-1.4.1-4.el6
or newer
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