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9.4.2.2. Tell Pacemaker How to Interpret the Connectivity Data

Important

Before attempting the following, make sure you understand Chapter 8, Rules.
There are a number of ways to use the connectivity data.
The most common setup is for people to have a single ping target (e.g. the service network’s default gateway), to prevent the cluster from running a resource on any unconnected node.

Example 9.3. Don’t run a resource on unconnected nodes

<rsc_location id="WebServer-no-connectivity" rsc="Webserver">
   <rule id="ping-exclude-rule" score="-INFINITY" >
    <expression id="ping-exclude" attribute="pingd" operation="not_defined"/>
   </rule>
</rsc_location>

A more complex setup is to have a number of ping targets configured. You can require the cluster to only run resources on nodes that can connect to all (or a minimum subset) of them.

Example 9.4. Run only on nodes connected to three or more ping targets.

<primitive id="ping" provider="pacemaker" class="ocf" type="ping">
... <!-- omitting some configuration to highlight important parts -->
      <nvpair id="pingd-multiplier" name="multiplier" value="1000"/>
...
</primitive>
...
<rsc_location id="WebServer-connectivity" rsc="Webserver">
   <rule id="ping-prefer-rule" score="-INFINITY" >
      <expression id="ping-prefer" attribute="pingd" operation="lt" value="3000"/>
   </rule>
</rsc_location>

Alternatively, you can tell the cluster only to prefer nodes with the best connectivity. Just be sure to set multiplier to a value higher than that of resource-stickiness (and don’t set either of them to INFINITY).

Example 9.5. Prefer the node with the most connected ping nodes

<rsc_location id="WebServer-connectivity" rsc="Webserver">
   <rule id="ping-prefer-rule" score-attribute="pingd" >
    <expression id="ping-prefer" attribute="pingd" operation="defined"/>
   </rule>
</rsc_location>

It is perhaps easier to think of this in terms of the simple constraints that the cluster translates it into. For example, if sles-1 is connected to all five ping nodes but sles-2 is only connected to two, then it would be as if you instead had the following constraints in your configuration:

Example 9.6. How the cluster translates the above location constraint

<rsc_location id="ping-1" rsc="Webserver" node="sles-1" score="5000"/>
<rsc_location id="ping-2" rsc="Webserver" node="sles-2" score="2000"/>

The advantage is that you don’t have to manually update any constraints whenever your network connectivity changes.
You can also combine the concepts above into something even more complex. The example below shows how you can prefer the node with the most connected ping nodes provided they have connectivity to at least three (again assuming that multiplier is set to 1000).

Example 9.7. A more complex example of choosing a location based on connectivity

<rsc_location id="WebServer-connectivity" rsc="Webserver">
   <rule id="ping-exclude-rule" score="-INFINITY" >
    <expression id="ping-exclude" attribute="pingd" operation="lt" value="3000"/>
   </rule>
   <rule id="ping-prefer-rule" score-attribute="pingd" >
    <expression id="ping-prefer" attribute="pingd" operation="defined"/>
   </rule>
</rsc_location>