[LinuxFailSafe] Serial Connection

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2002-07-17T15:37:53,
   Volker Pense <v.pense@profi-ag.de> said:

> how do I setup a serial connection between two nodes without a stonith 
> device? I mean, how do I define the nodes in the cluster?

Without a STONITH device, there is no need to setup a serial connection; this
is used only by some STONITH devices (ie, the WTI RPS-10 for example).
FailSafe itself doesn't use it.

Without a STONITH device, a FailSafe cluster will not work reliably, either.
You can tell it to use "ssh", but that will only cover a very limited set of
test scenarios (for which it was exclusively created, actually); most notably,
it will not be able to resolve a real node crash or physical cluster
partition.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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