[ovirt-users] ilo4 vs. ipmilan fencing agents

[Marek Grac]

On 07/19/2014 10:45 PM, Eli Mesika wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks at redhat.com>
>> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 1:02:13 AM
>> Subject: [ovirt-users] ilo4 vs. ipmilan fencing agents
>>
>> Hi all --
>>
>> I'm trying to get fencing squared away in my cluster of hp dl-380 servers,
>> which come with ilo4. I was able to get a successful status check from
>> the command line with fence_ilo4, but not w/ the ilo4 option in ovirt.
>>
>> I see, though, that ilo4 in ovirt just maps to fence_ipmilan, and I was
>> not able to get a successful status check w/ fence_ipmilan from the cli.
>>
>> So, I tried resetting the mapping so that ilo4 maps to ilo4. Now I can
>> complete the power management test in ovirt, but I imagine there's some
>> reason why ovirt isn't configured this way by default.
>>
>> Will fencing actually work for me with ilo4 mapped to ilo4, rather than
>> to ipmilan?
> ILO3 and ILO4 are mapped implicitly to ipmilan with lanplus flag ON and power_wait=4
> If you change the mapping to use the native scripts its OK as long as it works for you
> addin Marec G to the thread
> Marec, should we always map ILO3 & ILO4 to the native scripts (fence_ilo3 , fence_ilo4) and not to ipmilan ???
yes, it is better but adding arguments manually is fine also.

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