- Issued:
- 2009-11-03
- Updated:
- 2009-11-03
RHBA-2009:1544 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
fence-agents bug fix and enhancements update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
Updated fence-agents packages that fix several bugs and add support
for the IBM Bladecenter are now available.
Description
Red Hat fence agents are a collection of scripts to handle remote power
management for several devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to
be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.
These updated fence-agents packages fix the following bugs:
- Fence RSA does not support 'status' command from command line.
(BZ#493354)
- Fence agents return codes do not respect documentation. (BZ#493370)
- Fence agent for RSA did not respond correctly to wrong username/password.
(BZ#494329)
- Fence agents should support connecting to non-standard ports. (BZ#496446)
- Fence agent IPMI requires package OpenIPMI-tools. (BZ#497229)
- Fence agent for HP iLO stopped working after upgrade. (BZ#516098)
- Fence agent for IBM Bladecenter has problem rebooting machine. It is able
to power off the machine but an attempt to power it on ends with timeout
exception. (BZ#519114)
These updated fence-agents packages also add the following enhancement:
- Support for IBM Bladecenter. (BZ#491883)
All users of these packages should install these updated packages which
address these issues and add this enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 5 x86_64
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.