dejanmm at fastmail
Jul 2, 2009, 7:52 AM
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Re: maintenance on 2 nodes in a ha linux cluster
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Hi,
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:45:37PM +0200, Jonathan.Ilroy[at]smals.be wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am puzzled by a strange behavior of HA (version 1 with 2 nodes, simple
> configuration).
> Here's the scenario : 2 nodes (servera and serverb) are running HA on
> Linux Debian 5.0.2. All software installed with versions provided by
> Debian.
> HA is working correctly when one node is made unavailable and brought
> back.
> However, in this scenario :
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> 1) servera is shutdown (say, for maintenance)
> 2) serverb is shutdown (again, for maintenance, intentionally creating a
> loss of availability)
> 3) restarting servera (at this point, HA on servera is not restarted, no
> heartbeat, no resource, etc. --> ????)
> 4) restarting serverb (at this point HA, heartbeat is restarted on both
> nodes and the cluster works correctly again.)
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> It is strange that after point 3) HA is not restarted and the resources
> are not made available on servera even if serverb is not yet available. As
> soon as one node is up it should start the resources. I have also noted
> that restarting manually heartbeat after point 3) works. Only the
> automatic restart of heartbeat does not work. Of course heartbeat is
> configured to start automatically.
>
> Is this a normal behavior of HA v1 ?
I'd say yes, but you should check logs. Normally, a node from a
two-node cluster should not start resources unless it either
hears from the other node or makes sure that it is down by
fencing it using stonith. The question is if your stonith setup
works.
Thanks,
Dejan
> Here's ha.cf :
> debugfile /var/log/ha-debug
> logfile /var/log/ha-log
> keepalive 1
> deadtime 10
> warntime 2
> initdead 30
> udpport 694
> ucast eth1 192.168.2.2
> auto_failback on
> stonith_host servera.mydomain.com external/xen serverb.mydomain.com
> xen-stonith[at]10.32.2.31
> stonith_host serverb.mydomain.com external/xen servera.mydomain.com
> xen-stonith[at]10.32.2.30
> node servera.mydomain.com
> node serverb.mydomain.com
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> And here's haresources :
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> servera.mydomain.com IPaddr::10.32.2.29/26/eth0 drbddisk::r0 iscsitarget
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