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Mar 10, 2008, 10:21 AM
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Re: Which STONITH devices is everybody using?
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Hi, Dave
> I use Dell Servers and use the DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) as the
> stonith. It supports IPMI and am using external stonith. See my
> earlier post for setup. About $300/card.
As I know (and try), DELL x850, x950 Servers without DRAC card can
also support IPMI (>=1.5).
HP DL1xx support IPMI too, but DL3xx doesn't.
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> I've used wti_nps in the past, but didn't care for the model of
> switch that I was using as it only allowed one telnet connection.
> That was a few years back and I'm sure they've got around that
> limitation. Paid $500, it allowed for 8 power plugs.
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> You may want to check with your hardware vendor and see if they sell
> a card that supports IPMI. This will allow you to send a command to
> power cycle the server. It will probably allow you to remotely
> manage the server as well kind of a 2 for 1 one deal.
>
> Dave
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>>>> Dominik Klein <dk [at] in-telegence> 3/10/2008 12:07 PM >>>
> Hi
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> I read the list of stonith plugins and had a look at which devices
> they
> support. The list of devices you can buy new today was rather small.
>
> So I'd like to know which STONITH devices heartbeat users use.
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> Which device do you use?
> What kind of device is it?
> How much is it?
> How well does it work?
> What problems did you encounter?
> Did you have to write the stonith plugin yourself?
> If so, did you contribute it to the project?
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> As I'm not much of a programmer and have to buy some stonith hardware
> within the next weeks, help on this would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Dominik
>
> I'll even start with a "reply" myself:
> APC AP7920 power distribution unit.
> Cost about 450 Euros a piece.
> It seems to work well, do not have it in production yet.
> I set it up with apcmastersnmp.
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