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CentOS High Availability

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CentOS High Availability

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
CentOS High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

IPMI management board fencing


To configure your cluster with IPMI management board fencing, you should know the following information:

  • IPMI IP address of each cluster node: This is the IP address of the IPMI management board. Each cluster node has its own IPMI IP address.

  • IPMI login details for each cluster node: These are the username and password used to successfully connect to the cluster node IPMI management board. Each cluster node can have different IPMI login details.

You can get information about additional IPMI management board fencing agent parameters by running the pcs stonith describe fence_ipmilan command. You can download the output of this command from the command-4.txt file from the code bundle.

You can configure an IPMI management board fencing device with the following command:

pcs stonith create ipmilan1 fence_ipmilan ipaddr="192.168.88.100" login="ipmiuser1" passwd="ipmipass1" action="reboot" pcmk_host_list="node-1.geekpeek.net"

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