Peer

peer module allows user to add/probe remote machines to a Trusted Storage Pool, detach/remove a remote machine from a Trusted Storage Pool. action variable can be any of probe and detach.

When the action variable is set to probe, the remote machines listed in the hosts sections are added to the Trusted Storage Pool.

When the action variable is set to detach, the remote machines listed in the hosts sections are removed from the Trusted Storage Pool. The option detach also supports a force variable that can be set to ‘yes’, the default value is ‘no’ for the same.

Both probe and detach support ignore_peer_errors variable that can be set to ‘no’, its default value is ‘yes’.

Example 1: Add the specified hosts to a Trusted Storage Pool

[peer]
action=probe

Example 2: Add the specified hosts to a Trusted Storage Pool, in the below example the errors will not be ignored. ignore_peer_errors has ‘yes’ as its default value

[peer]
action=probe
ignore_peer_errors=no

Example 3: Detach a host from the Trusted Storage Pool

[peer]
action=detach
force=yes