Blind faith: not fencing unseen nodes

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12

Situation

What is the meaning of the warning message from the cluster?

warning: Blind faith: not fencing unseen nodes

Resolution

The cluster wide policy stonith-enabled=false has been set for the cluster.
Note: Clusters without STONITH enabled are not supported.

To enable STONITH policy in the cluster, use the following command.

crm configure property stonith-enabled=true

Additional Information

Reference documentation: Clusters without STONITH enabled are not supported.

Cluster utilities now show Errors when stonith-enabled=false
HAWK --> STATUS --> Error: STONITH is disabled. For normal cluster operation, STONITH is required.
crm shell --> ERROR: warning: unpack_config: Blind faith: not fencing unseen nodes

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