Pacemaker 3.0 Behavioral Changes

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This describes proposed behavioral changes for a possible Pacemaker 3.0.0 release. Discussion should be directed to the users mailing list.

These changes are only proposed and may not make it into the final release.

Logging and status displays

• The textual strings used for certain exit status codes and execution status codes will change, so if you have any scripts parsing output for these, they may need updating (for example, capitalization will become more consistent)

Daemon behavior

• The pacemaker-fenced -c/--stand-alone-w-cpg option has been dropped, and the -s / --stand-alone option (deprecated in 2.1.5 and no longer deprecated) now behaves like the dropped option.

• The Pacemaker Remote daemon will now default only to /etc/pacemaker/authkey for the authentication key location, and will no longer fall back to trying /etc/corosync/authkey if that is missing; also, if a user-specified key is unreadable, it will fail rather than trying the default location

• If the CIB is configured to allow remote management (remote-clear-port or remote-tls-port), the CIB manager now rejects all remote client connections if Pacemaker was built without PAM support. (Previously, it would accept all remote connections without any authentication.)

Tool behavior

• The --text-fancy command-line option has been dropped from all tools

• For tools that accept XML on the command line (such as cibadmin -X/--xml-text), the XML must be correctly formed. Previously, simple XML errors would be silently and automatically corrected. As an example, usage like cibadmin -C -o nodes -X '<node id="node1" uname="node1">' will now generate an error because the element is not properly closed with />.

• attrd_updater --query without --node or --all will now query the local node only (previously, it would query the local node when called from a resource agent executed by the cluster and all nodes when called from the command line)

• cibadmin
  • Support for the -b/--no-bcast and -h/--host options has been dropped
  • --md5-sum-versioned no longer outputs "Versioned (...) digest: " to stderr.

• crm_ticket options that require the --force option will now exit with a status of 107 rather than 4 when --force is not given, for consistency with other tools

• crm_mon no longer supports the deprecated options -h/--as-html, -s/--simple-status, -N/--disable-ncurses, and -w/--web-cgi

• crm_resource
  • -D/--delete now exits with success (0) instead of no-such-object (105) if resource doesn't exist, exits with usage error (64) instead of no-such-object (105) if -t argument is not given, and exits with invalid parameter (2) if given a specific clone instance.
  • -O/--list-operations does not list probes as active operations
  • --option now exits with a usage error (instead of being ignored) unless given with --validate and without -r/--resource
  • -T/--timeout now exits with a usage error (instead of being ignored) if given an invalid value

• crm_shadow
  • -r/--reset now requires --force
  • File errors, which previously would always result in exit status 105 (no such object), now give a more specific exit status when appropriate

• crm_simulate output will now say Assignment Scores rather than Allocation Scores

• Invalid command-line usage may result in an error rather than being silently ignored

Resource agent behavior

• The cluster will no longer provide the HA_mcp, HA_quorum_type, PCMK_mcp, and PCMK_quorum_type environment variables when executing resource agents.

• Drop support for the OCF 1.0 reload and unique behavior of OCF resource agents (only the OCF 1.1 reload-agent and reloadable behavior will be supported)

• Fence agents that do not advertise support for either plug or port will default to pcmk_host_argument="none"

• Node attributes will no longer be passed to fence agents as meta-attributes

• Resource instance attributes will no longer be passed as environment variables with an OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_ prefix (instance attributes will be passed only with OCF_RESKEY_, and meta-attributes will still be passed with OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_)

Alert agent behavior

• Alert environment variables will no longer be passed with a CRM_notify_ prefix, only CRM_alert_ (deprecated since 1.1.15)