Issued:
2012-05-07
Updated:
2012-05-07

RHBA-2012:0548 - fence-agents bug fix update

Synopsis

fence-agents bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated fence-agents packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Red Hat fence agents are a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, fencing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster node with the fence_soap_vmware fence agent running in a virtual machine on VMWare could fail with the following error message:

    KeyError: 'config.uuid'

This was because the fence agent was not able to work with more than one hundred machines in a cluster. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to support fencing of such clusters. (BZ#814843)

All users of fence-agents are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_646x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_646i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.2i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) - AUS6.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_646x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_646i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.2i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) - AUS6.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • fence-agents-debuginfo-3.1.5-10.el6_2.3.i686.rpm
  • fence-agents-debuginfo-3.1.5-10.el6_2.3.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-agents-3.1.5-10.el6_2.3.i686.rpm
  • fence-agents-3.1.5-10.el6_2.3.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-agents-3.1.5-10.el6_2.3.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information