Automate Pacemaker Cluster Failure Message clean up
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 High Availability all Service Packs
Situation
A cluster has failed resource messages that do not get cleaned up automatically and requires manual intervention. The desired behavior is to have a failed message cleared after a set number of seconds.
Resolution
To have a SLES High Availability pacemaker cluster clear resource and monitor failure messages after a set time, in seconds, run the command below to set a default failure timeout.
crm configure rsc_defaults failure-timeout=86400This command will allow the cluster to remove the failed resource message after 86400 seconds, or 24 hours.
This is a global setting, if a resource has a failure-timeout explicitly set than it will abide by that setting and not the global value.
Cause
The default behavior for SLES High Availability clusters is to have no failure-timeout and require manual intervention to clear messages.
Additional Information
Additional information about the failure-timeout setting is found in our documentation here:
https://documentation.suse.com/sle-ha/15-SP7/html/SLE-HA-all/sec-ha-config-basics-constraints.html#sec-ha-config-basics-failover
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- Document ID:000021926
- Creation Date: 21-Jul-2025
- Modified Date:24-Jul-2025
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