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Problems with fence_apc agent and accessing APC AP8965
All,

I have a bigger issue regarding dual power supplies and fence_apc that I'm
going to eventually need to resolve. But at this point I'm simply having
basic issues getting the fence_apc agent to be able to access the devices
in general, to wit:

# fence_apc --ssh --ip=hac-pdu1 --plug=1 --username=blah
--password=blah --verbose --action=status
Unable to connect/login to fencing device


However I can manually SSH into the device just fine:

# ssh blah@hac-pdu1
blah@hac-pdu1's password:


American Power Conversion Network Management Card AOS
v5.1.9
(c) Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved RPDU 2g
v5.1.6
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : hac-pdu1 Date : 02/21/2014
Contact : systems@mail.myserver123.com Time : 13:12:02
Location : C101, HAC Rack 1 User : Administrator
Up Time : 223 Days 17 Hours 0 Minutes Stat : P+ N4+ N6+ A+


Type ? for command listing
Use tcpip command for IP address(-i), subnet(-s), and gateway(-g)

apc>


So perhaps the place to start first is simply getting the fence_apc agent
(provided by CentOS/RHEL package fence-agents-3.1.5-35.el6_5.3.x86_64) to
actually be able to work correctly. Once that's done, I'll still need
help on the dual power supply issue.

I'm not seeing any attempts to login in the APC's logs file, though I do
see connections when I manually login, e.g.:
02/21/2014 13:13:11 System: Console user 'apc' logged out from 192.168.1.216.
02/21/2014 13:12:40 System: Console user 'apc' logged in from 192.168.1.216.

A manual 'telnet [name] 22' command also works fine from the command line:
# telnet hac-pdu1 22
Trying 192.168.1.222...
Connected to hac-1-pdu1 (192.168.1.222).
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-cryptlib


However fence_apc_snmp **does** seem to work:

# fence_apc_snmp --snmp-version=1 --community=public --ip=hac-pdu1
--plug=1 --username=blah --password=blah --verbose --action=status
/usr/bin/snmpwalk -m '' -Oeqn -v '1' -c 'public' 'hac-pdu1:161'
'.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0'
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
Created directory: /var/lib/net-snmp/mib_indexes
.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 .1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.3.4.6

Trying APC Master Switch (fallback)
/usr/bin/snmpget -m '' -Oeqn -v '1' -c 'public' 'hac-pdu1:161'
'.1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.4.4.2.1.3.1'
.1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.4.4.2.1.3.1 1

Status: ON


Does anyone have any ideas as to why fence_apc is not working?


Thanks!
Tony

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