[Linux-ha-dev] Re: LRM Testing

[Alan Robertson]

Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> 
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Some issues that resulted from some limited testing today...
>>> 1- Location of lrmd executable (should most likely be 
>>> /usr/lib/heartbeat like the others)
>>> 2- Location of pid file (/var/run is not normally writable by the 
>>> haclient user)
>>
>>
>> Why does it need a pid file?  I wonder...??
> 
> 
> probably the same reason the CRM does.... because I copied it from 
> somewhere else in the project :)
> 
>>
>>> 3- lrmd forks and runs in the background, this isnt compatible with 
>>> being launched as a "respawn" from ha.cf
>>
>>
>> Right.  This needs to be fixed... Or at least have an option to enable 
>> and disable this behavior...
>>
>>
>>> 4- a bunch of "client_log" messages result from lrmadmin calls.  
>>> These should probably be off by default and enabled with -V|--verbose
>>> 5- The option --rasupported should probably be renamed 
>>> --ra-class-upported and --ra-type-upported <class> be added
>>
>>
>> What does this do, actually?  I don't see any reason not to just load 
>> them all ;-)
>>
>>> 6- In the admin client generally, the s/type/class/ s/name/type/ need 
>>> to be made for consistency
>>
>>
>> OK.  Where does this show up?  I think we've talked around about this 
>> before...
> 
> 
> in the code for the admin client and in some of its functions and help text
> 
>>
>>> 7- The LRM is not checking if a RA actually exists during an add.  
>>> Since the LRM doesn't tell us the list of all RAs it can support, it 
>>> should at least tell us if the RA exists when we do the add.
>>
>>
>> You should ask for this capability (get a list of all supported).  
>> It's easy enough to do, it's just a matter of how to pass it back to 
>> you...
> 
> 
> i thought this wasnt desirable... since we'd try and cache the info.  i 
> thought the idea was to try and start/add the resource and find out then 
> if it was allowed.  i'm happy to do either.

GUIs need to be able to get the complete list to give the user...



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