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NAME
corosync.conf - corosync executive configuration file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/corosync/corosync.conf
DESCRIPTION
The corosync.conf instructs the corosync executive about various parameters needed to control the
corosync executive. Empty lines and lines starting with # character are ignored. The configuration file
consists of bracketed top level directives. The possible directive choices are:
totem { }
This top level directive contains configuration options for the totem protocol.
logging { }
This top level directive contains configuration options for logging.
quorum { }
This top level directive contains configuration options for quorum.
nodelist { }
This top level directive contains configuration options for nodes in cluster.
system { }
This top level directive contains configuration options related to system.
resources { }
This top level directive contains configuration options for resources.
nozzle { }
This top level directive contains configuration options for a libnozzle device.
The interface sub-directive of totem is optional for UDP and knet transports.
For knet, multiple interface subsections define parameters for each knet link on the system.
For UDPU an interface section is not needed and it is recommended that the nodelist is used to define
cluster nodes.
linknumber
This specifies the link number for the interface. When using the knet protocol, each interface
should specify separate link numbers to uniquely identify to the membership protocol which
interface to use for which link. The linknumber must start at 0. For UDP the only supported
linknumber is 0.
knet_link_priority
This specifies the priority for the link when knet is used in 'passive' mode. (see link_mode
below)
knet_ping_interval
This specifies the interval between knet link pings. knet_ping_interval and knet_ping_timeout are
a pair, if one is specified the other should be too, otherwise one will be calculated from the
token timeout and one will be taken from the config file. (default is token timeout /
(knet_pong_count*2))
knet_ping_timeout
If no ping is received within this time, the knet link is declared dead. knet_ping_interval and
knet_ping_timeout are a pair, if one is specified the other should be too, otherwise one will be
calculated from the token timeout and one will be taken from the config file. (default is token
timeout / knet_pong_count)
knet_ping_precision
How many values of latency are used to calculate the average link latency. (default 2048 samples)
knet_pong_count
How many valid ping/pongs before a link is marked UP. (default 2)
knet_transport
Which IP transport knet should use. valid values are "sctp" or "udp". (default: udp)
bindnetaddr (udp only)
This specifies the network address the corosync executive should bind to when using udp.
bindnetaddr (udp only) should be an IP address configured on the system, or a network address.
For example, if the local interface is 192.168.5.92 with netmask 255.255.255.0, you should set
bindnetaddr to 192.168.5.92 or 192.168.5.0. If the local interface is 192.168.5.92 with netmask
255.255.255.192, set bindnetaddr to 192.168.5.92 or 192.168.5.64, and so forth.
This may also be an IPV6 address, in which case IPV6 networking will be used. In this case, the
exact address must be specified and there is no automatic selection of the network interface
within a specific subnet as with IPv4.
If IPv6 networking is used, the nodeid field in nodelist must be specified.
broadcast (udp only)
This is optional and can be set to yes. If it is set to yes, the broadcast address will be used
for communication. If this option is set, mcastaddr should not be set.
mcastaddr (udp only)
This is the multicast address used by corosync executive. The default should work for most
networks, but the network administrator should be queried about a multicast address to use. Avoid
224.x.x.x because this is a "config" multicast address.
This may also be an IPV6 multicast address, in which case IPV6 networking will be used. If IPv6
networking is used, the nodeid field in nodelist must be specified.
It's not necessary to use this option if cluster_name option is used. If both options are used,
mcastaddr has higher priority.
mcastport (udp only)
This specifies the UDP port number. It is possible to use the same multicast address on a network
with the corosync services configured for different UDP ports. Please note corosync uses two UDP
ports mcastport (for mcast receives) and mcastport - 1 (for mcast sends). If you have multiple
clusters on the same network using the same mcastaddr please configure the mcastports with a gap.
ttl (udp only)
This specifies the Time To Live (TTL). If you run your cluster on a routed network then the
default of "1" will be too small. This option provides a way to increase this up to 255. The valid
range is 0..255.
Within the totem directive, there are seven configuration options of which one is required, five are
optional, and one is required when IPV6 is configured in the interface subdirective. The required
directive controls the version of the totem configuration. The optional option unless using IPV6
directive controls identification of the processor. The optional options control secrecy and
authentication, the network mode of operation and maximum network MTU field.
version
This specifies the version of the configuration file. Currently the only valid version for this
directive is 2.
clear_node_high_bit
This configuration option is optional and is only relevant when no nodeid is specified. Some
corosync clients require a signed 32 bit nodeid that is greater than zero however by default
corosync uses all 32 bits of the IPv4 address space when generating a nodeid. Set this option to
yes to force the high bit to be zero and therefore ensure the nodeid is a positive signed 32 bit
integer.
WARNING: Cluster behavior is undefined if this option is enabled on only a subset of the cluster
(for example during a rolling upgrade).
crypto_model
This specifies which cryptographic library should be used by knet. Options are nss and openssl.
The default is nss.
crypto_hash
This specifies which HMAC authentication should be used to authenticate all messages. Valid values
are none (no authentication), md5, sha1, sha256, sha384 and sha512. Encrypted transmission is only
supported for the knet transport.
The default is none.
crypto_cipher
This specifies which cipher should be used to encrypt all messages. Valid values are none (no
encryption), aes256, aes192 and aes128. Enabling crypto_cipher, requires also enabling of
crypto_hash. Encrypted transmission is only supported for the knet transport.
The default is none.
secauth
This implies crypto_cipher=aes256 and crypto_hash=sha256, unless those options are explicitly set.
Encrypted transmission is only supported for the knet transport.
The default is off.
keyfile
This specifies the fully qualified path to the shared key used to authenticate and encrypt data
used within the Totem protocol.
The default is /etc/corosync/authkey.
key Shared key stored in configuration instead of authkey file. This option has lower precedence than
keyfile option so it's used only when keyfile is not specified. Using this option is not
recommended for security reasons.
link_mode
This specifies the Kronosnet mode, which may be passive, active, or rr (round-robin). passive:
the active link with the highest priority will be used. If one or more links share the same
priority the one with the lowest link ID will be used. active: All active links will be used
simultaneously to send traffic. link priority is ignored. rr: Round-Robin policy. Each packet
will be sent to the next active link in order.
If only one interface directive is specified, passive is automatically chosen.
The maximum number of interface directives that is allowed with Kronosnet is 8. For other
transports it is 1.
netmtu This specifies the network maximum transmit unit. To set this value beyond 1500, the regular
frame MTU, requires ethernet devices that support large, or also called jumbo, frames. If any
device in the network doesn't support large frames, the protocol will not operate properly. The
hosts must also have their mtu size set from 1500 to whatever frame size is specified here.
Please note while some NICs or switches claim large frame support, they support 9000 MTU as the
maximum frame size including the IP header. Setting the netmtu and host MTUs to 9000 will cause
totem to use the full 9000 bytes of the frame. Then Linux will add a 18 byte header moving the
full frame size to 9018. As a result some hardware will not operate properly with this size of
data. A netmtu of 8982 seems to work for the few large frame devices that have been tested. Some
manufacturers claim large frame support when in fact they support frame sizes of 4500 bytes.
When sending multicast traffic, if the network frequently reconfigures, chances are that some
device in the network doesn't support large frames.
Choose hardware carefully if intending to use large frame support.
The default is 1500.
transport
This directive controls the transport mechanism used. The default is knet. The transport type
can also be set to udpu or udp. Only knet allows crypto or multiple interfaces per node.
cluster_name
This specifies the name of cluster and it's used for automatic generating of multicast address.
config_version
This specifies version of config file. This is converted to unsigned 64-bit int. By default it's
0. Option is used to prevent joining old nodes with not up-to-date configuration. If value is not
0, and node is going for first time (only for first time, join after split doesn't follow this
rules) from single-node membership to multiple nodes membership, other nodes config_versions are
collected. If current node config_version is not equal to highest of collected versions, corosync
is terminated.
ip_version
This specifies version of IP to ask DNS resolver for. The value can be one of ipv4 (look only for
an IPv4 address) , ipv6 (check only IPv6 address) , ipv4-6 (look for all address families and use
first IPv4 address found in the list if there is such address, otherwise use first IPv6 address)
and ipv6-4 (look for all address families and use first IPv6 address found in the list if there is
such address, otherwise use first IPv4 address).
Default (if unspecified) is ipv6-4 for knet and udpu transports and ipv4 for udp.
The knet transport supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses concurrently, provided they are consistent on
each link.
Within the totem directive, there are several configuration options which are used to control the
operation of the protocol. It is generally not recommended to change any of these values without
proper guidance and sufficient testing. Some networks may require larger values if suffering from
frequent reconfigurations. Some applications may require faster failure detection times which can
be achieved by reducing the token timeout.
token This timeout is used directly or as a base for real token timeout calculation (explained in
token_coefficient section). Token timeout specifies in milliseconds until a token loss is declared
after not receiving a token. This is the time spent detecting a failure of a processor in the
current configuration. Reforming a new configuration takes about 50 milliseconds in addition to
this timeout.
For real token timeout used by totem it's possible to read cmap value of
runtime.config.totem.token key.
Be careful to use the same timeout values on each of the nodes in the cluster or unpredictable
results may occur.
The default is 1000 milliseconds.
token_warning
Specifies the interval between warnings that the token has not been received. The value is a
percentage of the token timeout and can be set to 0 to disable warnings.
The default is 75%.
token_coefficient
This value is used only when nodelist section is specified and contains at least 3 nodes. If so,
real token timeout is then computed as token + (number_of_nodes - 2) * token_coefficient. This
allows cluster to scale without manually changing token timeout every time new node is added. This
value can be set to 0 resulting in effective removal of this feature.
The default is 650 milliseconds.
token_retransmit
This timeout specifies in milliseconds after how long before receiving a token the token is
retransmitted. This will be automatically calculated if token is modified. It is not recommended
to alter this value without guidance from the corosync community.
The minimum is 30 milliseconds. If not set and error occur, make sure token /
(token_retransmits_before_loss_const + 0.2) is more than 30.
The default is 238 milliseconds for two nodes cluster. Three or more nodes reference
token_coefficient.
knet_compression_model
Type of compression used by Kronosnet. Supported values depend on the libknet build and on the
installed compression libraries. Typically zlib and lz4 will be available but bzip2 and others
could also be allowed. The default is 'none'.
knet_compression_threshold
Tells knet to NOT compress any packets that are smaller than the value indicated. Default 100
bytes.
Set to 0 to reset to the default. Set to 1 to compress everything.
knet_compression_level
Many compression libraries allow tuning of compression parameters. For example 0 or 1 ... 9 are
commonly used to determine the level of compression. This value is passed unmodified to the
compression library so it is recommended to consult the library's documentation for more detailed
information.
hold This timeout specifies in milliseconds how long the token should be held by the representative
when the protocol is under low utilization. It is not recommended to alter this value without
guidance from the corosync community.
The default is 180 milliseconds.
token_retransmits_before_loss_const
This value identifies how many token retransmits should be attempted before forming a new
configuration. It is also used for token_retransmit and hold calculations.
The default is 4 retransmissions.
join This timeout specifies in milliseconds how long to wait for join messages in the membership
protocol.
The default is 50 milliseconds.
send_join
This timeout specifies in milliseconds an upper range between 0 and send_join to wait before
sending a join message. For configurations with less than 32 nodes, this parameter is not
necessary. For larger rings, this parameter is necessary to ensure the NIC is not overflowed with
join messages on formation of a new ring. A reasonable value for large rings (128 nodes) would be
80msec. Other timer values must also change if this value is changed. Seek advice from the
corosync mailing list if trying to run larger configurations.
The default is 0 milliseconds.
consensus
This timeout specifies in milliseconds how long to wait for consensus to be achieved before
starting a new round of membership configuration. The minimum value for consensus must be 1.2 *
token. This value will be automatically calculated at 1.2 * token if the user doesn't specify a
consensus value.
For two node clusters, a consensus larger than the join timeout but less than token is safe. For
three node or larger clusters, consensus should be larger than token. There is an increasing risk
of odd membership changes, which still guarantee virtual synchrony, as node count grows if
consensus is less than token.
The default is 1200 milliseconds.
merge This timeout specifies in milliseconds how long to wait before checking for a partition when no
multicast traffic is being sent. If multicast traffic is being sent, the merge detection happens
automatically as a function of the protocol.
The default is 200 milliseconds.
downcheck
This timeout specifies in milliseconds how long to wait before checking that a network interface
is back up after it has been downed.
The default is 1000 milliseconds.
fail_recv_const
This constant specifies how many rotations of the token without receiving any of the messages when
messages should be received may occur before a new configuration is formed.
The default is 2500 failures to receive a message.
seqno_unchanged_const
This constant specifies how many rotations of the token without any multicast traffic should occur
before the hold timer is started.
The default is 30 rotations.
heartbeat_failures_allowed
[HeartBeating mechanism] Configures the optional HeartBeating mechanism for faster failure
detection. Keep in mind that engaging this mechanism in lossy networks could cause faulty loss
declaration as the mechanism relies on the network for heartbeating.
So as a rule of thumb use this mechanism if you require improved failure in low to medium utilized
networks.
This constant specifies the number of heartbeat failures the system should tolerate before
declaring heartbeat failure e.g 3. Also if this value is not set or is 0 then the heartbeat
mechanism is not engaged in the system and token rotation is the method of failure detection
The default is 0 (disabled).
max_network_delay
[HeartBeating mechanism] This constant specifies in milliseconds the approximate delay that your
network takes to transport one packet from one machine to another. This value is to be set by
system engineers and please don't change if not sure as this effects the failure detection
mechanism using heartbeat.
The default is 50 milliseconds.
window_size
This constant specifies the maximum number of messages that may be sent on one token rotation. If
all processors perform equally well, this value could be large (300), which would introduce higher
latency from origination to delivery for very large rings. To reduce latency in large rings(16+),
the defaults are a safe compromise. If 1 or more slow processor(s) are present among fast
processors, window_size should be no larger than 256000 / netmtu to avoid overflow of the kernel
receive buffers. The user is notified of this by the display of a retransmit list in the
notification logs. There is no loss of data, but performance is reduced when these errors occur.
The default is 50 messages.
max_messages
This constant specifies the maximum number of messages that may be sent by one processor on
receipt of the token. The max_messages parameter is limited to 256000 / netmtu to prevent
overflow of the kernel transmit buffers.
The default is 17 messages.
miss_count_const
This constant defines the maximum number of times on receipt of a token a message is checked for
retransmission before a retransmission occurs. This parameter is useful to modify for switches
that delay multicast packets compared to unicast packets. The default setting works well for
nearly all modern switches.
The default is 5 messages.
knet_pmtud_interval
How often the knet PMTUd runs to look for network MTU changes. Value in seconds, default: 30
block_unlisted_ips
Allow UDPU and KNET to drop packets from IP addresses that are not known (nodes which don't exist
in the nodelist) to corosync. Value is yes or no.
This feature is mainly to protect against the joining of nodes with outdated configurations after
a cluster split. Another use case is to allow the atomic merge of two independent clusters.
Changing the default value is not recommended, the overhead is tiny and an existing cluster may
fail if corosync is started on an unlisted node with an old configuration.
The default value is yes.
Within the logging directive, there are several configuration options which are all optional.
The following 3 options are valid only for the top level logging directive:
timestamp
This specifies that a timestamp is placed on all log messages. It can be one of off (no
timestamp), on (second precision timestamp) or hires (millisecond precision timestamp - only when
supported by LibQB).
The default is hires (or on if hires is not supported).
fileline
This specifies that file and line should be printed.
The default is off.
function_name
This specifies that the code function name should be printed.
The default is off.
blackbox
This specifies that blackbox functionality should be enabled.
The default is on.
The following options are valid both for top level logging directive and they can be overridden in
logger_subsys entries.
to_stderr
to_logfile
to_syslog
These specify the destination of logging output. Any combination of these options may be
specified. Valid options are yes and no.
The default is syslog and stderr.
Please note, if you are using to_logfile and want to rotate the file, use logrotate(8) with the
option copytruncate. eg.
/var/log/corosync.log {
missingok
compress
notifempty
daily
rotate 7
copytruncate
}
logfile
If the to_logfile directive is set to yes , this option specifies the pathname of the log file.
No default.
logfile_priority
This specifies the logfile priority for this particular subsystem. Ignored if debug is on.
Possible values are: alert, crit, debug (same as debug = on), emerg, err, info, notice, warning.
The default is: info.
syslog_facility
This specifies the syslog facility type that will be used for any messages sent to syslog. options
are daemon, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6 & local7.
The default is daemon.
syslog_priority
This specifies the syslog level for this particular subsystem. Ignored if debug is on. Possible
values are: alert, crit, debug (same as debug = on), emerg, err, info, notice, warning.
The default is: info.
debug This specifies whether debug output is logged for this particular logger. Also can contain value
trace, what is highest level of debug information.
The default is off.
Within the logging directive, logger_subsys directives are optional.
Within the logger_subsys sub-directive, all of the above logging configuration options are valid and can
be used to override the default settings. The subsys entry, described below, is mandatory to identify
the subsystem.
subsys This specifies the subsystem identity (name) for which logging is specified. This is the name used
by a service in the log_init() call. E.g. 'CPG'. This directive is required.
Within the quorum directive it is possible to specify the quorum algorithm to use with the
provider
directive. At the time of writing only corosync_votequorum is supported. See votequorum(5) for
configuration options.
Within the nodelist directive it is possible to specify specific information about nodes in cluster.
Directive can contain only node sub-directive, which specifies every node that should be a member of the
membership, and where non-default options are needed. Every node must have at least ring0_addr field
filled.
Every node that should be a member of the membership must be specified.
Possible options are:
ringX_addr
This specifies IP or network hostname address of the particular node. X is a link number.
nodeid This configuration option is required for each node for Kronosnet mode. It is a 32 bit value
specifying the node identifier delivered to the cluster membership service. The node identifier
value of zero is reserved and should not be used. If knet is set, this field must be set.
name This option is used mainly with knet transport to identify local node. It's also used by client
software (pacemaker). Algorithm for identifying local node is following:
1. Looks up $HOSTNAME in the nodelist
2. If this fails strip the domain name from $HOSTNAME and looks up that in the nodelist
3. If this fails look in the nodelist for a fully-qualified name whose short version matches
the short version of $HOSTNAME
4. If all this fails then search the interfaces list for an address that matches a name in the
nodelist
Within the system directive it is possible to specify system options.
Possible options are:
qb_ipc_type
This specifies type of IPC to use. Can be one of native (default), shm and socket. Native means
one of shm or socket, depending on what is supported by OS. On systems with support for both, SHM
is selected. SHM is generally faster, but need to allocate ring buffer file in /dev/shm.
sched_rr
Should be set to yes (default) if corosync should try to set round robin realtime scheduling with
maximal priority to itself. When setting of scheduler fails, fallback to set maximal priority.
priority
Set priority of corosync process. Valid only when sched_rr is set to no. Can be ether numeric
value with similar meaning as nice(1) or max / min meaning maximal / minimal priority (so minimal
/ maximal nice value).
move_to_root_cgroup
Should be set to yes (default) if corosync should try to move itself to root cgroup. This feature
is available only for systems with cgroups with RT sched enabled (Linux with CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
kernel option).
state_dir
Existing directory where corosync should chdir into. Corosync stores important state files and
blackboxes there.
The default is /var/lib/corosync.
Within the resources directive it is possible to specify options for resources.
Possible option is:
watchdog_device
(Valid only if Corosync was compiled with watchdog support.)
Watchdog device to use, for example /dev/watchdog. If unset, empty or "off", no watchdog is used.
In a cluster with properly configured power fencing a watchdog provides no additional value. On
the other hand, slow watchdog communication may incur multi-second delays in the Corosync main
loop, potentially breaking down membership. IPMI watchdogs are particularly notorious in this
regard: read about kipmid_max_busy_us in IPMI.txt in the Linux kernel documentation.
Within the nozzle directive it is possible to specify options for a libnozzle device. This is a pseudo
ethernet device that routes network traffic through a channel on the corosync knet network (NOT cpg or
any corosync internal service) to other nodes in the cluster. This allows applications to take advantage
of knet features such as multipathing, automatic failover, link switching etc. Note that libnozzle is not
a reliable transport, but you can tunnel TCP through it for reliable communications.
libnozzle also supports optional interface up/down scripts that are kept under a /etc/corosync/updown.d/
directory. See the knet documentation for more information.
Only one nozzle device is allowed.
The nozzle stanza takes several options:
name The name of the network device to be created. On Linux this may be any name at all, other
platforms have restrictions on the name.
ipaddr The IP address (IPv6 or IPv4) of the interface. The bottom part of this address will be replaced
by the local node's nodeid in conjunction with ipprefix. so, eg ipaddr: 192.168.1.0 ipprefix: 24
will make nodeids 1,2,5 use IP addresses 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2 & 192.168.1.5. If a prefix
length of 16 is used then the bottom two bytes will be filled in with nodeid numbers. IPv6
addresses must end in '::', the nodeid will be added after the two colons to make the local IP
address. Only one IP address is currently supported in the corosync.conf file. Additional IP
addresses can be added in the ifup script if necessary.
ipprefix
specifies the IP address prefix for the nozzle device (see above)
macaddr
Specifies the MAC address prefix for the nozzle device. As for the IP address, the bottom part of
the MAC address will be filled in with the node id. In this case no prefix applies, the bottom two
bytes of the MAC address will always be overwritten with the node id. So specifying macaddr:
54:54:12:24:12:12 on nodeid 1 will result in it having a MAC address of 54:54:12:24:00:01
TO ADD A NEW NODE TO THE CLUSTER
For example to add a node with address 10.24.38.108 with nodeid 3. The node has the name NEW (in DNS or
/etc/hosts) and is not currently running corosync. The current corosync.conf nodelist looks like this:
nodelist {
node {
nodeid: 1
ring0_addr: 10.24.38.101
name: node1
}
node {
nodeid: 2
ring0_addr: 10.24.38.102
name: node2
}
}
Add a new entry for the node below the existing nodes. Node entries don't have to be in nodeid order, but
it will help keep you sane. So the nodelist now looks like this:
nodelist {
node {
nodeid: 1
ring0_addr: 10.24.38.101
name: node1
}
node {
nodeid: 2
ring0_addr: 10.24.38.102
name: node2
}
node {
nodeid: 3
ring0_addr: 10.24.38.108
name: NEW
}
}
This file must then be copied onto all three nodes - the existing two nodes, and the new one. On one of
the existing corosync nodes, tell corosync to re-read the updated config file into memory:
corosync-cfgtool -R
This command only needs to be run on one node in the cluster. You may then start corosync on the NEW node
and it should join the cluster. If this doesn't work as expected then check the communications between
all three nodes is working, and check the syslog files on all nodes for more information. It's important
to note that the key bit of information about a node failing to join might be on a different node than
you expect.
TO REMOVE A NODE FROM THE CLUSTER
This is the reverse procedure to 'Adding a node' above. First you need to shut down the node you will be
removing from the cluster.
corosync-cfgtool -H
Then delete the nodelist stanza from corosync.conf and finally update corosync on the remaining nodes by
running
corosync-cfgtool -R
on one of them.
ADDRESS RESOLUTION
corosync resolves ringX_addr names/IP addresses using the getaddrinfo(3) call with respect of
totem.ip_version setting.
getaddrinfo() function uses a sophisticated algorithm to sort node addresses into a preferred order and
corosync always chooses the first address in that list of the required family. As such it is essential
that your DNS or /etc/hosts files are correctly configured so that all addresses for ringX appear on the
same network (or are reachable with minimal hops) and over the same IP protocol. If this is not the case
then some nodes might not be able to join the cluster. It is possible to override the search order used
by getaddrinfo() using the configuration file /etc/gai.conf(5) if necessary, but this is not recommended.
If there is any doubt about the order of addresses returned from getaddrinfo() then it might be simpler
to use IP addresses (v4 or v6) in the ringX_addr field.
FILES
/etc/corosync/corosync.conf
The corosync executive configuration file.
SEE ALSO
corosync_overview(7), votequorum(5), corosync-qdevice(8), logrotate(8) getaddrinfo(3) gai.conf(5)
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