Running the fence_vmware_soap fence agent fails with a connection timeout
Issue
- fence_vmware_soap fails with connection timeout python exception:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/sbin/fence_vmware_soap", line 175, in ? main() File "/sbin/fence_vmware_soap", line 160, in main conn = soap_login(options) File "/sbin/fence_vmware_soap", line 24, in soap_login conn = Client(url + "/vimService.wsdl") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/client.py", line 112, in __init__ self.wsdl = reader.open(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/reader.py", line 152, in open d = self.fn(url, self.options) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/wsdl.py", line 136, in __init__ d = reader.open(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/reader.py", line 79, in open d = self.download(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/reader.py", line 95, in download fp = self.options.transport.open(Request(url)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/transport/https.py", line 60, in open return HttpTransport.open(self, request) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/transport/http.py", line 62, in open return self.u2open(u2request) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/suds/transport/http.py", line 116, in u2open return url.open(u2request) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1118, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1092, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform (Clustering)
- VMWare VMs as cluster nodes, using fence_vmware_soap
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