Why does fence_sbd report "power timeout needs to be greater then sbd message timeout" and fencing fails?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Fence sbd connection timed out for cluster node and the following message was logged:

node1 stonith-ng[XXX]: warning: fence_sbd[YYY] stderr: [ power timeout needs to be                 greater then sbd message timeout ]
node1 stonith-ng[XXX]: warning: fence_sbd[YYY] stderr: [ Connection timed out ]
node1 stonith-ng[XXX]: warning: fence_sbd[YYY] stderr: [  ]
node1 stonith-ng[XXX]: warning: fence_sbd[YYY] stderr: [  ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 with the High Availability Add On
  • fence_sbd and SBD device that has customized msgwait value

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