Migrate resources depending on ocf:pacemaker:ping RA with Pacemaker

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 by Frank Lazzarini

The job we want to accomplish is quite simple. Let's just say you have two nodes nodeA and nodeB on two different locations which both have a individual gateways. Now let's imagine the following scenario, gatewayA goes down, and resulting in this there is no more internet connectivity on nodeA, so ideally you would want the cluster to switch to the node which still has internet connectivity. Using the resource agent ping you can create such a rule in pacemaker.

There are 3 different resource agents to accomplish this tasks, but we are going to use just one specific.

    ocf:heartbeat:pingd (Deprecated you shouldn't use this one anymore)
    ocf:pacemaker:pingd
--> ocf:pacemaker:ping

Configure

First let's create the ping primitive in crm and create a clone of it, so it runs on both nodes. We are going to ping ip addresses outside of the network, so internet ip addresses. For each successful ping result the p_ping primitive will score 1 point which is going to be multiplied by 100. But we'll come back on scoring later on.

# crm
crm(live)# primitive p_ping ocf:pacemaker:ping params host_list="8.8.8.8 4.2.2.2" multiplier="100" dampen="5s" op monitor interval="60" timeout="60"  op start interval="0" timeout="60" op stop interval="0" timeout="60"
crm(live)# clone c_ping p_ping
crm(live)# commit

host_list the ip addresses that are going to be pinged separated by a space e.g "x.x.x.x y.y.y.y"

multiplier each successful ping will result in a score value of 1 which is then multiplied by the multiplier value, usually you should use 100 here.

If you look at the cluster now you should see something similar to this.

Online: [ nodeB nodeA ]

 Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd [p_drbd]
     Masters: [ nodeB ]
     Slaves: [ nodeA ]
 Resource Group: g_cluster
     p_fs       (ocf::heartbeat:Filesystem):    Started nodeB
     p_ip       (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2):       Started nodeB
 Clone Set: c_ping [p_ping]
     Started: [ nodeB nodeA ]

Counting the scores

So we have the following scenario, nodeA and nodeB have the p_ping primitive and both can ping the ip addresses 8.8.8.8 4.2.2.2 so both nodes will get 1 score per pingagble address which will result in score 2 * 100 so 200 score for each node.

nodeA (OK)  --> 2 * 100 = 200
nodeB (OK)  --> 2 * 100 = 200

Now let's cut the internet connection on nodeA which will result in the following scenario. nodeA can't ping any of the ip addresses anymore so it will get a score of 0 which is multiplied by 100 which will result in a score of 0.

nodeA (NOK) --> 0 * 100 = 0
nodeB (OK)  --> 2 * 100 = 200

With these scores we can work to get the cluster to automatically failover. Just add a simple location rule which will migrate a resource over to another node. Here I use my group definition as a resource, which consists of all the services I need to have started.

# crm
crm(live)# configure
crm(live)# location groupwithping g_cluster rule -inf: not_defined pingd or pingd lte 0
crm(live)# commit

To test this you can simply use iptables to block all the icmp traffic on one of the nodes.

iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp -j DROP

To disable this iptables rule again simply do

iptables -F

Prefer a NodeA

You might want to have a setup where you would like to prefer nodeA to have always all the resources if the network connectivity is ok, there you need to give this node an extra score. This can also be done with a location rule.

# crm
crm(live)# configure
crm(live)# location prefernodeA resourceA rule 50: \#uname eq nodeA
crm(live)# commit

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