fence_drac5 missing "module_name" parameter?

[tomstephens89]

Hi guys,

I am trying to configure fencing on a 16 node cluster consisting of Dell Blade servers and was following your article here https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Fencing#Enable_fencing_on_all_nodes

It says I can use the CMC to fence via the iDRAC's by specifying module_name="" for each fence device. However this was giving me an "element device: validity error". Upon further investigation it seems that module_name is no longer an option in the fence_drac5 package which means i cannot fence using the CMC....

What has happened here? And is there a new way i can fence with the CMC+iDRAC's?

 

[tomstephens89]

Can no-one comment here? It seems the ability to use dell CMC's to fence is no longer an option and it hasn't been announced. I would consider that a major problem!

 

[spirit]

Hi,

It seem that "module_name" has been removed in last fence_drac5 version (2013)

https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cluster-commits/2013-February/003087.html


It has been replace by "plug"

-n, --plug=[id]Physical plug number, name of virtual machine or UUID This parameter is always required.


can you test to replace "module_name" by "plug" ?

 

[tomstephens89]

Hi,

It seem that "module_name" has been removed in last fence_drac5 version (2013)

https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cluster-commits/2013-February/003087.html


It has been replace by "plug"

-n, --plug=[id]Physical plug number, name of virtual machine or UUID This parameter is always required.


can you test to replace "module_name" by "plug" ?

I will try to test this, but what version of fenc_drac5 is included with proxmox? Is it the newest build with the plug parameter?

Also... I could just wait until 4.0 comes out so I can use watchdog fencing instead like VMWare.

 

[spirit]

I will try to test this, but what version of fenc_drac5 is included with proxmox? Is it the newest build with the plug parameter?

yes, with plug parameter

# fence_drac5 -h

to be sure