"fence_brocade" reports: pattern match timed-out at /sbin/fence_brocade line 155

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Issue

  • Fencing using fence_brocade fencing agent fails. The command used was
# fence_brocade -a 192.168.0.5 -n {portnumber} -l {switchroot} -p {password} -o disable

Errors that are seen are

Feb  3 21:13:22 node1 fenced[11217]: agent "fence_brocade" reports: pattern match timed-out at /sbin/fence_brocade line 155 
Feb  3 21:13:34 node1 fenced[11217]: agent "fence_brocade" reports: pattern match timed-out at /sbin/fence_brocade line 155
Feb  3 21:13:34 node1 fenced[11217]: fence "node2" failed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • Fencing agent "fence_brocade"
  • Brocade Silkwarm with fabric OS version 6.1.0a

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