rgmanager(8) Red Hat Cluster Suite rgmanager(8)NAMErgmanager - Resource Group (Cluster Service) Manager Daemon
DESCRIPTIONrgmanager handles management of user-defined cluster services (also
known as resource groups). This includes handling of user requests
including service start, service disable, service relocate, and service
restart. The service manager daemon also handles restarting and relo‐
cating services in the event of failures.
HOW IT WORKS
The service manager is spawned by an init script after the cluster in‐
frastructure has been started and only functions when the cluster is
quorate and locks are working.
During initialization, the service manager runs scripts which ensure
that all services are clear to be started. After that, it determines
which services need to be started and starts them.
When an event is received, members which are no longer online have
their services taken away from them. The event should only occur in
the case that the member has been fenced whenever fencing is available.
When a cluster member determines that it is no longer in the cluster
quorum, the service manager stops all services and waits for a new quo‐
rum to form.
CONFIGURATION
Rgmanager is configured via cluster.conf. With the exception of log‐
ging, all of rgmanager's configuration resides with the <rm> tag. The
general parameters for rgmanager are as follows:
central_processing - Enable central processing mode (requires cluster-
wide shut down and restart of rgmanager). This alternative mode of
handling failures externalizes most of rgmanager's features into a
user-editable script. This mode is disabled by default.
status_poll_interval - This defines the amount of time, in seconds,
rgmanager waits between resource tree scans for status checks.
Decreasing this value may improve rgmanager's ability to detect fail‐
ures in services, but at a cost of decreased performance and increased
system utilization. The default is 10 seconds.
status_child_max - Maximum number of status check threads (default =
5). It is not recommended that this ever be changed. This simply con‐
trols how many instances of clustat queries may be outstanding on a
single node at any given time.
transition_throttling - This is the amount of time the event processing
thread stays alive after the last event has been processed. The
default is 5 seconds. It is not recommended that this ever be changed.
log_level - DEPRECATED; DO NOT USE. Controls log level filtering to
syslog. Default is 5; valid values range from 0-7. See clus‐
ter.conf(5) for the current method to configure logging.
log_facility - DEPRECATED; DO NOT USE. Controls log level facility
when sending messages to syslog. Default is "daemon". See clus‐
ter.conf(5) for the current method to configure logging.
RESOURCE AGENTS
Resource agents define resource classes rgmanager can manage. Rgman‐
ager follows the Open Cluster Framework Resource Agent API v1.0 (draft)
standard, with the following two notable exceptions:
* Rgmanager does not call monitor; it only calls status
* Rgmanager looks for resource agets in /usr/share/cluster
Rgmanager uses the metadata from resource agents to determine what
parameters to look for in cluster.conf for a each resource type. View‐
ing the resource agent metadata is the best way to understand all the
various resource agent parameters.
SERVICES / RESOURCE GROUPS
A service or resource group is a collection of resources defined in
cluster.conf for rgmanager's use. Resource groups are also called
resource trees.
A resource group is the atomic unit of failover in rgmanager. That is,
even though rgmanager calls out to various resource agents individually
in order to start or stop various resources, everything in the resource
group is always moved around together in the event of a relocation or
failover.
STARTUP POLICIES
Rgmanager supports only two startup policies,
autostart - if set to 1 (the default), the service is started when a
quorum forms. If set to 0, the service is not automatically started.
Startup Policy Configuration: Recovery Configuration:
<rm>
<service name="service1" autostart="[0|1]" .../>
...
</rm>
RECOVERY POLICIES
Rgmanager supports three recovery policies for services; this is con‐
figured by the recovery parameter in the service definition.
restart - means to attempt to restart the resource group in place in
the event of one or more failures of individual resources. This can
further be augmented by the max_restarts and restart_expire_time param‐
eters, which define a tolerance for the amount of service restarts over
the given amount of time.
relocate - means to move the resource group to another host in the
cluster instead of restarting on the same host.
disable - means to not try to recover the resource group. Instead,
just place it in to the disabled state.
Recovery Configuration:
<rm>
<service name="service1" recovery="[restart|relocate|disable]" .../>
...
</rm>
FAILOVER DOMAINS
A failover domain is an ordered subset of members to which a service
may be bound. The following is a list of semantics governing the
options as to how the different configuration options affect the behav‐
ior of a failover domain:
preferred node or preferred member : The preferred node was the member
designated to run a given service if the member is online. We can emu‐
late this behavior by specifying an unordered, unrestricted failover
domain of exactly one member.
restricted domain : Services bound to the domain may only run on clus‐
ter members which are also members of the failover domain. If no mem‐
bers of the failover domain are available, the service is placed in the
stopped state.
unrestricted domain : Services bound to this domain may run on all
cluster members, but will run on a member of the domain whenever one is
available. This means that if a service is running outside of the
domain and a member of the domain comes online, the service will
migrate to that member.
ordered domain : The order specified in the configuration dictates the
order of preference of members within the domain. The highest-ranking
member of the domain will run the service whenever it is online. This
means that if member A has a higher rank than member B, the service
will migrate to A if it was running on B if A transitions from offline
to online.
unordered domain : Members of the domain have no order of preference;
any member may run the service. Services will always migrate to members
of their failover domain whenever possible, however, in an unordered
domain.
nofailback : Enabling this option for an ordered failover domain will
prevent automated fail-back after a more-preferred node rejoins the
cluster. Consequently, nofailback requires an ordered domain in order
to be meaningful. When nofailback is used, the following two behaviors
should be noted:
* If a subset of cluster nodes forms a quorum, the node with the high‐
est priority in the failover domain is selected to run a service bound
to the domain. After this point, a higher priority member joining the
cluster will not trigger a relocation.
* When a service is running outside of its unrestricted failover
domain and a cluster member boots which is a part of the service's
failover domain, the service will relocate to that member. That is,
nofailback does not prevent transitions from outside of a failover
domain to inside a failover domain. After this point, a higher prior‐
ity member joining the cluster will not trigger a relocation.
Ordering, restriction, and nofailback are flags and may be combined in
almost any way (ie, ordered+restricted, unordered+unrestricted, etc.).
These combinations affect both where services start after initial quo‐
rum formation and which cluster members will take over services in the
event that the service has failed.
Failover Domain Configuration:
<rm>
<failoverdomains>
<failoverdomain name="NAME" ordered="[0|1]" restricted="[0|1]"
nofailback="[0|1" >
<failoverdomainnode name="node1" priority="[1..100]" />
...
</failoverdomain>
</failoverdomains>
...
</rm>
SERVICE OPERATIONS
These are how the basic user-initiated service operations (via clusv‐
cadm ) work.
enable - start the service, optionally on a preferred target and
optionally according to failover domain rules. In absence of either,
the local host where clusvcadm is run will start the service. If the
original start fails, the service behaves as though a relocate opera‐
tion was requested (see below). If the operation succeeds, the service
is placed in the started state.
disable - stop the service and place into the disabled state. This is
the only permissible operation when a service is in the failed state.
relocate - move the service to another node. Optionally, the adminis‐
trator may specify a preferred node to receive the service, but the
inability for the service to run on that host (e.g. if the service
fails to start or the host is offline) does not prevent relocation, and
another node is chosen. Rgmanager attempts to start the service on
every permissible node in the cluster. If no permissible target node in
the cluster successfully starts the service, the relocation fails and
the service is attempted to be restarted on the original owner. If the
original owner can not restart the service, the service is placed in
the stopped state.
stop - stop the service and place into the stopped state.
migrate - migrate the virtual machine to another node. The administra‐
tor must specify a target node. Depending on the failure, a failure to
migrate may result with the virtual machine in the failed state or in
the started state on the original owner.
freeze - freeze the service or virtual machine in place and prevent
status checks from occurring. Administrators may do this in order to
perform maintenance on one or more parts of a given service without
having rgmanager interfere. It is very important that the administra‐
tor unfreezes the service once maintenance is complete, as a frozen
service will not fail over. Freezing a service does NOT affect is
operational state. For example, it does not 'pause' virtual machines
or suspend them to disk.
unfreeze - unfreeze (thaw) the service or virtual machine. This com‐
mand makes rgmanager perform status checks on the service again.
SERVICE STATES
These are the most common service states.
disabled - The service will remain in the disabled state until either
an administrator re-enables the service or the cluster loses quorum
(when the cluster regains quorum, the autostart parameter is evalu‐
ated). An administrator may enable the service from this state.
failed - The service is presumed dead. A service is placed in to this
state whenever a resource's stop operation fails. After a service is
placed in to this state, the administrator must verify that there are
no allocated resources (mounted file systems, etc.) prior to issuing a
disable request. The only operation which can take place when a service
has entered this state is a disable.
stopped - When in the stopped state, the service will be evaluated for
starting after the next service or node transition. This is considered
a temporary state. An administrator may disable or enable the service
from this state.
recovering - The cluster is trying to recover the service. An adminis‐
trator may disable the service to prevent recovery if desired.
started - If a service status check fails, recover it according to the
service recovery policy. If the host running the service fails, recover
it following failover domain & exclusive service rules. An administra‐
tor may relocate, stop, disable, and (with virtual machines) migrate
the service from this state.
VIRTUAL MACHINE FEATURES
Apart from what is noted in the VM resource agent, rgmanager provides a
few convenience features when dealing with virtual machines.
* it will use live migration when transferring a virtual machine to a
more-preferred host in the cluster as a consequence of failover domain
operation
* it will search the other instances of rgmanager in the cluster in
the case that a user accidentally moves a virtual machine using other
management tools
* unlike services, adding a virtual machine to rgmanager's configura‐
tion will not cause the virtual machine to be restarted
* removing a virtual machine from rgmanager's configuration will leave
the virtual machine running.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS-f Run in the foreground (do not fork).
-d Enable debug-level logging.
-q Disable DBus signals which are normally sent when services
change state.
-w Disable internal process monitoring (for debugging).
-N Do not perform stop-before-start. Combined with the -Z flag to
clusvcadm, this can be used to allow rgmanager to be upgraded
without stopping a given user service or set of services.
-C Explicitly disable or enable CPG-based locking. The default is
to enable this when RRP is turned on (which requires a cluster
outage). This option MUST be the same on all hosts in the clus‐
ter and must only be enabled or disabled with all instances of
rgmanager turned off.
SEE ALSO
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/RGManager
clusvcadm(8), cluster.conf(5), cpglockd(8)
Jul 2010 rgmanager(8)