fence_xenapi8

Overview

fence_xenapi is a Power Fencing agent used on Citrix XenServer hosts. It uses the XenAPI, supplied by Citrix, to establish an XML-RPC session to a XenServer host. Once the session is established, further XML-RPC commands are issued in order to switch on, switch off, restart and query the status of virtual machines running on the host.

The fence agent accepts options on the command line as well as from stdin. Fenced sends parameters through stdin when it execs the agent. The agent can be run by itself with command line options. This is useful for testing and for turning outlets on or off from scripts.

Vendor URL: http://www.xenproject.org

Parameters

-o, --action=[action]

Fencing action (Default Value: reboot)

-p, --password=[password]

Login password or passphrase

-S, --password-script=[script]

Script to run to retrieve password

-n, --plug=[id]

Physical plug number on device, UUID or identification of machine This parameter is always required.

-s, --session-url

URL to connect to XenServer on This parameter is always required.

-l, --username=[name]

Login name

-q, --quiet

Disable logging to stderr. Does not affect --verbose or --debug-file or logging to syslog.

-v, --verbose

Verbose mode. Multiple -v flags can be stacked on the command line (e.g., -vvv) to increase verbosity.

--verbose-level

Level of debugging detail in output. Defaults to the number of --verbose flags specified on the command line, or to 1 if verbose=1 in a stonith device configuration (i.e., on stdin).

-D, --debug-file=[debugfile]

Write debug information to given file

-V, --version

Display version information and exit

-h, --help

Display help and exit

--plug-separator=[char]

Separator for plug parameter when specifying more than 1 plug (Default Value: ,)

-C, --separator=[char]

Separator for CSV created by 'list' operation (Default Value: ,)

--delay=[seconds]

Wait X seconds before fencing is started (Default Value: 0)

--disable-timeout=[true/false]

Disable timeout (true/false) (default: true when run from Pacemaker 2.0+)

--login-timeout=[seconds]

Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after login (Default Value: 5)

--power-timeout=[seconds]

Test X seconds for status change after ON/OFF (Default Value: 20)

--power-wait=[seconds]

Wait X seconds after issuing ON/OFF (Default Value: 0)

--shell-timeout=[seconds]

Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after issuing command (Default Value: 3)

--stonith-status-sleep=[seconds]

Sleep X seconds between status calls during a STONITH action (Default Value: 1)

--retry-on=[attempts]

Count of attempts to retry power on (Default Value: 1)

Actions

on

Power on machine.

off

Power off machine.

reboot

Reboot machine.

status

This returns the status of the plug/virtual machine.

list

List available plugs with aliases/virtual machines if there is support for more then one device. Returns N/A otherwise.

list-status

List available plugs with aliases/virtual machines and their power state if it can be obtained without additional commands.

monitor

Check the health of fence device

metadata

Display the XML metadata describing this resource.

manpage

The operational behavior of this is not known.

validate-all

Validate if all required parameters are entered.

Stdin parameters

action

Fencing action (Default Value: reboot)

password

Login password or passphrase Obsoletes: passwd

password_script

Script to run to retrieve password Obsoletes: passwd_script

plug

Physical plug number on device, UUID or identification of machine This parameter is always required. Obsoletes: port

session_url

URL to connect to XenServer on This parameter is always required.

username

Login name Obsoletes: login

quiet

Disable logging to stderr. Does not affect --verbose or --debug-file or logging to syslog.

verbose

Verbose mode. Multiple -v flags can be stacked on the command line (e.g., -vvv) to increase verbosity.

verbose_level

Level of debugging detail in output. Defaults to the number of --verbose flags specified on the command line, or to 1 if verbose=1 in a stonith device configuration (i.e., on stdin).

debug_file

Write debug information to given file Obsoletes: debug

version

Display version information and exit

help

Display help and exit

plug_separator

Separator for plug parameter when specifying more than 1 plug (Default Value: ,)

separator

Separator for CSV created by 'list' operation (Default Value: ,)

delay

Wait X seconds before fencing is started (Default Value: 0)

disable_timeout

Disable timeout (true/false) (default: true when run from Pacemaker 2.0+)

login_timeout

Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after login (Default Value: 5)

power_timeout

Test X seconds for status change after ON/OFF (Default Value: 20)

power_wait

Wait X seconds after issuing ON/OFF (Default Value: 0)

shell_timeout

Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after issuing command (Default Value: 3)

stonith_status_sleep

Sleep X seconds between status calls during a STONITH action (Default Value: 1)

retry_on

Count of attempts to retry power on (Default Value: 1)