Fencing fails when fencing a cluster node with this error: "ipmitool not found! failed: Failed to initialize"
Issue
- Fencing fails with:
fenced[7573]: fencing node "node1.redhat.com"
fenced[7573]: agent "fence_ipmilan" reports: ipmilan: ipmitool not found! failed: Failed to initialize
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add on)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add on)
- Using
fence_ipmilan
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