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4.252. rgmanager

An updated rgmanager package that fixes various bugs and adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The rgmanager package contains the Red Hat Resource Group Manager, which provides the ability to create and manage high-availability server applications in the event of system downtime.
The rgmanager package has been upgraded to upstream version 3.0.12.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Note that this update requires the resource-agents package in version 3.9.2 or later. (BZ#707118)

Bug Fixes

BZ#673167
When handling failed services, the "clusvcadm -d" command now operates consistently.
BZ#690191
Exclusive prioritization now operates on service failures instead of only on node failures.
BZ#692895
The rgmanager service no longer terminates unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when a resource agent provides invalid or corrupted metadata.
BZ#709398
Reference count handling of resources with multiple instances has been corrected.
BZ#716231
An error in handling of independent subtree failures, which caused more resources to be disabled than necessary, has been fixed.
BZ#697446, BZ#741607
The rgmanager service no longer terminates unexpectedly on startup/shutdown or during service relocation.

Enhancement

BZ#723925
The rgmanager service can now be disabled in the cluster.conf configuration file.
All users of rgmanager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds this enhancement.
An updated rgmanager package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The rgmanager package contains the Red Hat Resource Group Manager, which provides the ability to create and manage high-availability server applications in the event of system downtime.

Bug Fix

BZ#721004
Prior to this update, any resource agent returning corrupted or invalid metadata would cause the rgmanager utility to terminate unexpectedly and the node to be fenced. With this update, rgmanager is able to skip the broken agent and continue operating as expected, thus fixing this bug.
Users of rgmanager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.