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OCF Compliant Fence Agents

Fence agents were developed as device "drivers" which are able to prevent computers from destroying data on shared storage. Their aim is to isolate a corrupted computer, using one of three methods: - Power - A computer that is switched off cannot corrupt data, but it is important to not do a "soft-reboot" as we won't know if this is possible. This also works for virtual machines when the fence device is a hypervisor. - Network - Switches can prevent routing to a given computer, so even if a computer is powered on it won't be able to harm the data. - Configuration - Fibre-channel switches or SCSI devices allow us to limit who can write to managed disks. This is used by the Pacemaker cluster resource management.

Origin
net-mgmt/fence-agents
Size
848KiB
License
not specified
Maintainer
ports@FreeBSD.org
Dependencies
5 packages
Required by
0 packages

Dependencies (5)