STONITH Device For a Desktop Motherboard?

dman777 · 09-16-2012, 06:25 PM

For a home system that is a 2 node cluster using heartbeat and pacemaker, which would be the best bet for a Shoot The Node In The Head device? A PDU looks rather expensive, and from what I read a Ipmi card won't really work on a desktop motherboard(using Gigabyte AMD).

sKaar · 09-18-2012, 12:56 PM

looked up ipmi, looks like some kind of device to monitor the fans and stuff in a server... you could probably do that with a minimal networked arduino, the proper protocol stack and some connectors. could even get it to trigger shutdown sequences of the server if there's an error.