Issued:
2010-11-22
Updated:
2010-11-22

RHEA-2010:0904 - fence-agents enhancement update

Synopsis

fence-agents enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated fence-agents package that adds support for new hardware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is now available.

Description

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

This update adds the following enhancements:

  • The package has been updated to provide a fencing agent that is able to communicate with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, allowing virtual machines to be fenced. (BZ#642695)

  • For Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) devices, the "power_wait" delay can now be adjusted in order to support newer iLO 3 firmware. (BZ#643340)

  • Brocade 200E, Brocade 300, Brocade 4100, Brocade 4900, and Brocade 5100 fencing devices are now supported by the fence_brocade agent, and can be used with both Red Hat High Availability and Red Hat Resilient Storage. (BZ#643515)

All users requiring any of the features listed above are advised to upgrade to this new package, which adds these enhancements.

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 RHEL Server) from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6i386
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 RHEL Server) from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6i386

Updated Packages

  • fence-agents-3.0.12-8.el6_0.2.src.rpm
  • fence-agents-3.0.12-8.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-agents-debuginfo-3.0.12-8.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-agents-3.0.12-8.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
  • fence-agents-debuginfo-3.0.12-8.el6_0.2.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information