AW: Recommended Power switches for FailSafe?

Hi Kashif,

>   I'm currently looking into getting a good external power 
> switch that 
> will work with FailSafe.  I am aware that FailSafe supports 
> two kinds of 
> power switches/controllers: VACM and STONITH.  And I have read in the 
> past there are some (minor)problems setting up STONITH devices with 
> FailSafe: would anyone care to re-iterate this problem and the fix?

Both VACM and STONITH controller support is commented out in the failsafe makefiles by default, so you'll have to either use the suse rpms (which have stonith enabled) or build your own binaries/rpms.

here's the patch used by suse to anebale stonith support: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/failsafe/patches/failsafe-enable_stonith.dif

Also, the stonith programs/libraries must be installed before rebuilding failsafe. the stonith libs can be downloaded as part of heartbeat, see http://www.linux-ha.org/download/ for sources or prebuilt rpms.

I'm using an APC MasterSwitch (AP9212) using the apcmastersnmp module, works fine so far.

Bye, Martin