Cluster resources failing on stop take too long to recover

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

Situation

Once a resource has a stop failure, the node is supposed to be fenced to recover from the failure. It is taking 10 minutes for the resource to detect and recover from the stop failure.

A portion of the cluster information base (CIB) looks like this:


<op_defaults>
  <meta_attributes id="op_defaults-options">
    <nvpair id="op_defaults-options-timeout" name="timeout" value="600"/>
    <nvpair id="op_defaults-options-record-pending" name="record-pending" value="true"/>
  </meta_attributes>
</op_defaults>

Resolution

Remove the Operation Defaults timeout value

1. Launch Pacemaker GUI (hb_gui)
2. Login and select Operation Defaults
3. Highlight "timeout" in the Meta Attributes tab.
4. Select Remove and Yes to confirm.

Cause

The default timeout value for stop failures was set too high.

Additional Information

If a resource does not have it's own stop timeout value, the operation defaults timeout value will be used. When a resource is stopped on the node, but that resource fails to stop as it should, the cluster will wait for the time specified in the operation defaults timeout. If the value is too high, it will take too long for the resource to be started on another node, thus decreasing its availability. This value should really never be more than 60 seconds.

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Document ID:7012355
Creation Date: 02-May-2013
Modified Date:03-Mar-2020
- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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