fence_xvmd(8) Libvirt-based, general purpose fencing host for virtual machines.

SYNOPSIS

fence_xvmd [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

fence_xvmd is an I/O Fencing host which resides on bare metal machines and is used in conjunction with the fence_xvm fencing agent. Together, these two programs can be used to fence can be used machines which are part of a cluster.

If the virtual machines are backed by clustered storage or the virtual machines may be migrated to other physical machines, all physical machines in question must also be a part of their own CMAN/OpenAIS based cluster. Furthermore, the bare metal cluster is required to have fencing configured if virtual machine recovery is expected to be automatic.

fence_xvmd accepts options on the command line and from cluster.conf

OPTIONS

-f
Foreground mode (do not fork)
-d
Enable debugging output. The more times you specify this parameter, the more debugging output you will receive.
-i family
IP family to use (auto, ipv4, or ipv6; default = auto)
-a address
Multicast address to listen on (default=225.0.0.12 for ipv4, ff02::3:1 for ipv6)
-p port
Port to use (default=1229)
-I interface
Network interface to listen on, e.g. eth0.
-C auth
Authentication type (none, sha1, sha256, sha512; default=sha256). This controls the authentication mechanism used to authenticate clients. The three SHA hashes use a key which must be shared between both the virtual machines and the host machine or cluster. The three SHA authentication mechanisms use a simple bidirectional challenge-response based on pseudo- random number generation and a shared private key.
-c hash
Packet hash type (none, sha1, sha256, sha512; default=sha256). This controls the hashing mechanism used to authenticate fencing requests. The three SHA hashes use a key which must be shared between both the virtual machines and the host machine or cluster.
-k key_file
Use the specified key file for packet hashing / SHA authentication. When both the hash type and the authentication type are set to "none", this parameter is ignored.
-u
Fence by UUID instead of virtual machine name.
-?
Print out a help message describing available options, then exit.
-h
Print out a help message describing available options, then exit.
-X
Do not connect to CCS for configuration; only use command line parameters. CCS configuration parameters override command line parameters (because they are cluster-wide), so if you need to override a configuration option contained in CCS, you must specify this parameter.
-L
Local-only / non-cluster mode. When used with -X, this this option prevents fence_xvmd from operating as a clustered service, obviating the need to configure/run CMAN on the host domain.
-U uri
Force use of the specified URI for connecting to the hypervisor.
-V
Print out a version message, then exit.

CCS PARAMETERS

CCS options are simply attributes of the <fence_xvmd> tag, a child of the <cluster> tag in /etc/cluster/cluster.conf.
debug="1"
Same as the -d option. Specify numbers >1 for more debugging information.
family="param"
Same as the -i option.
multicast_address="param"
Same as the -a option.
port="param"
Same as the -p option.
auth="param"
Same as the -C option.
hash="param"
Same as the -c option.
key_file="param"
Same as the -k option.
use_uuid="1"
Same as the -u option.