Running a fence agent from the command line works, but fence_node fails to fence a node in a RHEL High Availability cluster

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Issue

  • Running fence_ipmilan from the command line works, but fence_node or having the cluster try to fence a node automatically fails
  • It's sucessful to use the fence agent directly on one node to fence the other. But when use fence_node command to fence the other, it fails.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On

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