fence_vmare_soap stonith device is not able to start in one node whereas it is able to start on other node in Red Hat High Availability Clusters

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Issue

  • fence_vmware_soap is not starting on one node and giving the below mentioned error.

    Nov  3 03:36:39 node2 crmd[8316]:  notice: Initiating action 32: start vmfence_start_0 on node2 (local)
    Nov  3 03:36:39 node2 stonith-ng[8312]:  notice: Added 'vmfence' to the device list (1 active devices)
    Nov  3 03:36:40 node2 stonith-ng[8312]:  notice: Operation 'monitor' [5488] for device 'vmfence' returned: -61 (No data available)
    Nov  3 03:36:40 node2 crmd[8316]:   error: No such device: fence_vmware_soap
    Nov  3 03:36:40 node2 crmd[8316]: warning: No metadata found for fence_vmware_soap::stonith:heartbeat: Input/output error (-5)
    Nov  3 03:36:40 node2 crmd[8316]:   error: No metadata for (null)::stonith:fence_vmware_soap
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, or 7 with the High Availability or Resilient Storage Add On

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