Eli Mesika has submitted this change and it was merged. Change subject: core: Allow to fence host manually in reboot state ...................................................................... core: Allow to fence host manually in reboot state In the event of a full host power outage (including fence devices) we are waiting for the network attempts to reconnect while the Host is in "Connecting" state in which manual fence is forbidden since this is considered as a INTERMITTENT state. After that, the Host non-responding treatment is taking place and trying to manually fence the Host during the fencing retries will fail since manual fence calls ClearNonResponsiveVdsVmsCommand which currently allows only Hosts that are non-responding to execute this command. That means that VMs can be freed only after the network reconnect attempts plus all fencing handling took place which is quite a long time (19 min according to the BZ description) The fencing flow moves the Host to "Reboot" state at the time the Restart command is issued. This patch modifies the ClearNonResponsiveVdsVmsCommand canDoAction method to allow execution of this command while Host is in "Reboot" state in order to shorten the above time (in the flow described in the BZ this patch allows freeing the VMs at 2013-12-13 12:40:33 instead of at 12-13 12:52:39 which will save us more than 12 min) Since when the Host is manually fenced the user approves that the Host was rebooted we have no problem to allow the user freeing the VMs earlier if he knows the real state. Change-Id: I4f5f45ca122d841cc411cc6d9541d0903aeb955a Bug-Url : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044091 Signed-off-by: Eli Mesika <emesika(a)redhat.com&gt; --- M backend/manager/modules/bll/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/bll/ClearNonResponsiveVdsVmsCommand.java 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Approvals: Eli Mesika: Verified; Looks good to me, approved -- To view, visit http://gerrit.ovirt.org/22885 To unsubscribe, visit http://gerrit.ovirt.org/settings Gerrit-MessageType: merged Gerrit-Change-Id: I4f5f45ca122d841cc411cc6d9541d0903aeb955a Gerrit-PatchSet: 3 Gerrit-Project: ovirt-engine Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: Eli Mesika <emesika(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Eli Mesika <emesika(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Martin Peřina <mperina(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Ravi Nori <rnori(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Yair Zaslavsky <yzaslavs(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: oVirt Jenkins CI Server