[Users] ovirt 3.3 and ilo2 for power fencing?

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:58:41PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Gianluca Cecchi  wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > is this combination supported?
> >> > I'm trying to configure Power Management, but I get this:
> >> >
> >> > Power Management test failed for Host f18ovn03.Parse error: Ignoring
> >> > unknown option 'option=status' Unable to connect/login to fencing
> >> > device
> >
> > That's odd. "status" is indeed not an ilo option, it's an action.
> > Do you have anything filled in the "Options" field of the host's power
> > management dialog?
> > Could you copy the thread starting with "fenceNode" from your vdsm.log?
> 
> I don't find that string... neither in f18ovn03 (where I configured
> fencing and clicked the test button) nor in f18ovn01 (the node that
> oVirt should have used to test fencing I suppose)

fenceNode should be sought on the fencing host (f18ovn01) not the
victim. do you have any other host in the datacenter? Maybe your
vdsm.log has been log-rotated? Could you look at your engine.log for
hints?

> 
> 
> >
> >> >
> >> > What would be correct setup?
> >> > Any way to test from command line too?
> >> >
> >> > The hw is an HP blade BL685 g1 with iLO2 mgmt
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance.
> >> >
> >> > Gianluca
> >>
> >> I forgot an important thing.
> >> I configured from webgui and the test succeeded, bu actually the blade
> >> was put in power off, not reboot
> >
> > When was the host powered off? during test, or when there has been a
> > need for fencing?
> >
> > Dan.
> 
> Starting point was f18ovn03 and f18ovn01 configured without power mgmt
> I went into edit f18ovn03 and configured power mgmt.
> After click "test", after several seconds returned successful in the
> power mgmt window.
> But when I clicked "ok" button to save, then I saw the error in events
> tray of the gui.
> And the host in "reboot" state in the Gui with hourglass: is this
> expectd behaviour when you configure power mgmt for a host that it is
> rebooted?

Not at all. "test" ought to be harmless, and never cause an
unintentional reboot.

> The host remained in "reboot" state with hourglass so I went to see
> the iLO console.
> And I saw that the server was in power off state.
> I waited a little but nothing happened.
> I noticed that if I powered on the server, after a few seconds it was
> powered off again.... I presume by oVirt...
> 
> Gianluca