Fencing works from command line but fails when issued automatically by the cluster in a recently configured RHEL 5 or 6 High Availability cluster

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Issue

  • When I test fencing manually from the command line, it works. However when I power off a node, fencing fails repeatedly.
  • I am configuring fencing and am able to do it on a node level, however when the VM is destroyed to simulate a node failure the fencing of the clustered resources fails as fenced is unable to fence the other node that is already offline.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
  • In /etc/cluster/cluster.conf, the <clusternode> in question does not have any associated <fence><method><device/></method></fence>

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