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FENCE_AGENT(8) System Manager's Manual FENCE_AGENT(8)

NAME

fence_rsa - Fence agent for IBM RSA

DESCRIPTION

fence_rsa is an I/O Fencing agent which can be used with the IBM RSA II management interface. It logs into an RSA II device via telnet and reboots the associated machine. Lengthy telnet connections to the RSA II device should be avoided while a GFS cluster is running because the connection will block any necessary fencing actions.

fence_rsa accepts options on the command line as well as from stdin. Fenced sends parameters through stdin when it execs the agent. fence_rsa can be run by itself with command line options. This is useful for testing and for turning outlets on or off from scripts.

Vendor URL: http://www.ibm.com

PARAMETERS

Fencing action (Default Value: reboot)
Force Python regex for command prompt (Default Value: ['>'])
Identity file (private key) for SSH
-4, --inet4-only
Forces agent to use IPv4 addresses only
-6, --inet6-only
Forces agent to use IPv6 addresses only
IP address or hostname of fencing device
TCP/UDP port to use for connection with device (Default Value: 23)
Login password or passphrase
Script to run to retrieve password
IP address or hostname of fencing device (together with --port-as-ip)
Use SSH connection
SSH options to use (Default Value: -F /dev/null)
Login name This parameter is always required.
Disable logging to stderr. Does not affect --verbose or --debug-file or logging to syslog.
Verbose mode
Write debug information to given file
Display version information and exit
Display help and exit
Wait X seconds before fencing is started (Default Value: 0)
Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after login (Default Value: 10)
Make "port/plug" to be an alias to IP address
Test X seconds for status change after ON/OFF (Default Value: 20)
Wait X seconds after issuing ON/OFF (Default Value: 0)
Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after issuing command (Default Value: 3)
Count of attempts to retry power on (Default Value: 1)
Path to ssh binary (Default Value: /usr/bin/ssh)
Path to telnet binary (Default Value: /usr/bin/telnet)

ACTIONS

Power on machine.
Power off machine.
Reboot machine.
This returns the status of the plug/virtual machine.
Check the health of fence device
Display the XML metadata describing this resource.

The operational behavior of this is not known.
Validate if all required parameters are entered.

STDIN PARAMETERS

Fencing action (Default Value: reboot)
Force Python regex for command prompt (Default Value: ['>']) Obsoletes: cmd_prompt
Identity file (private key) for SSH
Forces agent to use IPv4 addresses only
Forces agent to use IPv6 addresses only
IP address or hostname of fencing device Obsoletes: ipaddr
TCP/UDP port to use for connection with device (Default Value: 23)
Login password or passphrase Obsoletes: passwd
Script to run to retrieve password Obsoletes: passwd_script
IP address or hostname of fencing device (together with --port-as-ip) Obsoletes: port
Use SSH connection Obsoletes: secure
SSH options to use (Default Value: -F /dev/null)
Login name This parameter is always required. Obsoletes: login
Disable logging to stderr. Does not affect --verbose or --debug-file or logging to syslog.
Verbose mode
Write debug information to given file Obsoletes: debug
Display version information and exit
Display help and exit
Wait X seconds before fencing is started (Default Value: 0)
Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after login (Default Value: 10)
Make "port/plug" to be an alias to IP address
Test X seconds for status change after ON/OFF (Default Value: 20)
Wait X seconds after issuing ON/OFF (Default Value: 0)
Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after issuing command (Default Value: 3)
Count of attempts to retry power on (Default Value: 1)
Path to ssh binary (Default Value: /usr/bin/ssh)
Path to telnet binary (Default Value: /usr/bin/telnet)
2009-10-20 fence_rsa (Fence Agent)