What user permissions/roles are required for the VMware vCenter user account to perform fence action using Vmware fencing agents?
Issue
- What user permissions/roles are required for the
VMware vCenter
user account to perform fence action usingfence_vmware_soap
orfence_vmware_rest
? -
Fencing a cluster node failed with the following error:
Sep 7 12:34:25 node42 fence_vmware_soap: Failed: The user does not have the correct privileges to do the requested action. Sep 7 12:34:26 node42 stonith-ng[1723]: notice: fence_vmware_soap_reboot_2:39413:stderr [ 2022-09-07 12:34:25,795 ERROR: Failed: The user does not have the correct privileges to do the requested action. ]
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)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add on)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8 (with the High Availability Add on)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 9 (with the High Availability Add on)
- Cluster nodes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as VMware guests (RHEL5.7+ RHEL6.2+)
fence_vmware_soap
fence_vmware_rest
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