OCF_HEARTBEAT_ANYTHI(7)

💅 ocf_heartbeat_anything(7) — like, the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to the OCF resource agents corner of the internet, this one's OCF_HEARTBEAT_ANYTHI(7) and it's literally the manual page for ocf_heartbeat_anything. yes the title got chopped mid-word, no we're not gonna talk about it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ocf_heartbeat_anything — manages an arbitrary service. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she's a generalist 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

anything [start | stop | monitor | meta-data | validate-all]

like, pick an action, any action. slay.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: this is a generic OCF RA (resource agent, keep up 💅) that manages almost anything. not everything — almost. she's flexible like that. no cap.

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🔥 SUPPORTED PARAMETERS 🔥

every single one, bestie, we're not skipping a single one. iykyk.

• binfile — the full name of the binary to be executed. heads up though: whatever this is, it's expected to keep running with the same pid — it does not just do a thing and bounce. it stays. main character energy only. (required, string, no default 🫶)
• cmdline_options — command line options you wanna pass to the binary. (optional, string, no default)
• workdir — the path from where the binfile will be executed. like, where she gets her start. (optional, string, no default)
• pidfile — file to read/write the PID from/to. (optional, string, default "/var/run/anything_RESOURCE_ID.pid")
• logfile — file to write STDOUT to. (optional, string, default "/dev/null") — yes, the default is the void, the void is undefeated 💀
• errlogfile — file to write STDERR to. (optional, string, no default)
• user — user to run the command as. (optional, string, default "root") — ngl, root is a lot of power, be responsible bestie 🙈
• monitor_hook — command to run in monitor operation. (optional, string, no default)
• stop_timeout — in the stop operation: seconds to wait for kill -TERM to succeed before sending kill -SIGKILL. defaults to 2/3 of the stop operation timeout. so she's polite first, then she's not 😭🔪 (optional, string, no default)

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💜 SUPPORTED ACTIONS 💜

this resource agent supports the following actions (operations), and yes each one has a suggested minimum timeout, write them down:

1. start — starts the resource. suggested minimum timeout: 20s. go bestie go 🚀
2. stop — stops the resource. suggested minimum timeout: 20s.
3. monitor — performs a detailed status check. suggested minimum timeout: 20s. suggested interval: 10s. she's checking on you every 10 seconds, it's giving concerned bestie 👀
4. meta-data — retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). suggested minimum timeout: 5s.
5. validate-all — performs a validation of the resource configuration. suggested minimum timeout: 5s.

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🎀 EXAMPLE CRM SHELL 🎀

here's what a anything resource looks like using the crm(8) shell, verbatim, do not touch:

primitive p_anything ocf:heartbeat:anything \
  params \
    binfile=string \
  op monitor depth="0" timeout="20s" interval="10s"

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🌈 EXAMPLE PCS 🌈

and here's the same deal with pcs(8):

pcs resource create p_anything ocf:heartbeat:anything \
  binfile=string \
  op monitor OCF_CHECK_LEVEL="0" timeout="20s" interval="10s"

note the depth="0" vs OCF_CHECK_LEVEL="0" glow-up — different tools, same energy ✨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• http://clusterlabs.org/ — go click, she's iconic

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

ClusterLabs contributors — see the resource agent source for information about individual authors. the whole squad, fr fr 🫶

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and that's the page!! every flag, every default, every timeout, every example — all of it, preserved, no cap 💅

resource-agents UNKNOWN 🌸 dated 10/01/2026 — and that's the footer bestie, we made it to the end, OCF_HEARTBEAT_ANYTHI(7) ate and left no crumbs 🧚💖