Unfencing fails with logged message 'Timer expired' in a RHEL 6 or 7 High Availability cluster with pacemaker

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Issue

Nov 17 11:01:43 [29581] node1 stonith-ng:   notice: stonith_action_async_done:  Child process 43410 performing action 'on' timed out with signal 15
Nov 17 11:01:43 [29581] node1 stonith-ng:    error: log_operation:  Operation 'on' [43410] (call 20 from crmd.29389) for host 'node1' with device 'scsi' returned: -62 (Timer expired)
  • Our stonith device's unfencing attempt times out
  • How can I change the timeout value for unfencing by a stonith device?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7 with the High Availability Add-On
  • pacemaker
  • One or more stonith devices in use that that require unfencing

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