Issued:
2010-03-30
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2010:0266 - cman bug-fix and feature update

Synopsis

cman bug-fix and feature update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated cman packages that fix bugs and provide new features are now available.

Description

The Cluster Manager (cman) utility provides user-level services for managing a Linux cluster.

This update provides the following updates & fixes:

  • fence_rsa fails to login with new RSA II firmware (549473)
  • fence_virsh reports vm status incorrectly (544664)
  • Improve error messages from ccsd if there is a network problem (517399)
  • New fence agent for VMWare (TechPreview) (548577)
  • Fence agent for HP iLO2 MP (508722)
  • Fence agent for RSB ends with traceback (545054)
  • Security feature for SNMP based agent: apc_snmp & ibmblade (532922)
  • Change default timeout values for various fence agents (549124)
  • Version is not shown in several fence agents (549124)
  • cman: automatically configure consensus based on token timeout (544482)
  • Add readconfig & dumpconfig to fence_tool (514662)
  • Make groupd handle partition merges (546082)
  • groupd: clean up leaving failed node (521817)
  • scsi_reserve should always echo after failure (514260)
  • scsi_reserve should handle multipath with partitions (516625)
  • fence_scsi_test: add debug information (516763)
  • fence_scsi_test should not allow -c and -s options together (528832)
  • fence: Fix fence_ipmilan read from unitialized memory (532138)
  • qdiskd: Make qdiskd stop crying wolf (532773)
  • fence: Fencing fails when used without telnet or ssh (512343)
  • fence: APC changed product name (MasterSwitch -> Switched Rack PDU) (447481)
  • fence: fix invalid initalization introduced by retry-on option
  • fence: Broken device detection for DRAC3 ERA/O (489809)
  • fence: Fix case sensitivities in action parameter (528938)
  • fence: fencing_snmp fails on all operations & traceback fix (528916)
  • fence: accept unknown options from standard input (532920)
  • fence: fence_apc unable to obtain plug status (532916)
  • fence: timeout options added (507514)
  • fence: better XML generation for metadata (needed for default values)
  • fence: better default timeout for bladecenter
  • fence: retry-on option used in iLO fence agent
  • fence: add missing-as-off option (missing blade/device is always OFF) (248006)
  • make qdiskd "master-wins" node work (372901)
  • make qdisk self-fence system if write errors take longer than interval*tko (511113)
  • Make service_cman.lcrso executable, so that RPM adds it to the debuginfo pkg (511346)
  • Don't check for xm command in cman init script, virsh is more appropriate (516111)
  • Allow re-registering of a quorum device (525270)
  • Fix fence_scsi, multipath and persistent reservations (516625)
  • scsi_reserve now handles failures (514260)
  • cman_tool leave remove reduces quorum when no services are connected (515446)
  • fence_sanbox2 unable to retrieve status (512947)
  • gfs_controld: GETLK should free unused resource (513285)
  • fence: Allow IP addresses as node names (504158)
  • fence_scsi man page contains invalid option (515731)
  • fence_scsi support for 2 node clusters (516085)
  • Support for power cycle in fence ipmi (482913)
  • Add option 'list devices' for fencing agents (519697)
  • Add support for switching IPv4/IPv6 (520458)
  • Fence agent ends with traceback if option is missing
  • Add option to set port for SSH/telnet
  • Force stdout close for fencing agents (518622)
  • Support for long options (519670)
  • Fix a situation where cman could kill the wrong nodes (513260)
  • Fix support for large numbers of gfs & gfs2 file systems (100+) (561892)
  • Fix a problem where 'dm suspend' would hang a withdrawn GFS file system (570530)
  • Fix a problem where fence_snmp could return success when the operation failed (573834)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386

Updated Packages

  • cman-2.0.115-34.el5.src.rpm
  • cman-2.0.115-34.el5.ia64.rpm
  • cman-devel-2.0.115-34.el5.i386.rpm
  • cman-2.0.115-34.el5.i386.rpm
  • cman-devel-2.0.115-34.el5.ppc.rpm
  • cman-devel-2.0.115-34.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • cman-devel-2.0.115-34.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • cman-devel-2.0.115-34.el5.ia64.rpm
  • cman-2.0.115-34.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • cman-2.0.115-34.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

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Additional information