Fencing fails when fencing a cluster node with this error: "ipmitool not found! failed: Failed to initialize"

Solution Unverified - Updated -

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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