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From: travisn <tnielsen@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:07:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs: instructions for mon injection

Signed-off-by: travisn <tnielsen@redhat.com>
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+# Restoring Mon Quorum
+
+Under extenuating circumstances, the mons may lose quorum. If the mons cannot form quorum again, 
+there is a manual procedure to get the quorum going again. The only requirement is that at least one mon
+is still healthy. The following steps will remove the unhealthy
+mons from quorum and allow you to form a quorum again with a single mon, then grow the quorum back to the original size. 
+
+For example, if you have three mons and lose quorum, you will need to remove the two bad mons from quorum, notify the good mon
+that it is the only mon in quorum, and then restart the good mon.
+
+## Stop the operator
+First, stop the operator so it will not try to failover the mons while we are modifying the monmap
+```bash
+kubectl -n rook-system delete deployment rook-operator
+```
+
+## Inject a new monmap
+**WARNING: Injecting a monmap must be done very carefully. If run incorrectly, your cluster could be permanently destroyed.**
+
+The Ceph monmap keeps track of the mon quorum. We will update the monmap to only contain the healthy mon.
+In this example, the healthy mon is `rook-ceph-mon1`, while the unhealthy mons are `rook-ceph-mon0` and `rook-ceph-mon2`.
+
+Connect to the pod of a healthy mon and run the following commands.
+```bash
+kubectl -n rook exec -it <mon-pod> bash
+
+# set a few simple variables
+cluster_namespace=rook
+good_mon_id=rook-ceph-mon1
+monmap_path=/tmp/monmap
+
+# make sure the quorum lock file does not exist
+rm -f /var/lib/rook/${good_mon_id}/data/store.db/LOCK
+
+# extract the monmap to a file
+ceph-mon -i ${good_mon_id} --extract-monmap ${monmap_path} \
+  --cluster=${cluster_namespace} --mon-data=/var/lib/rook/${good_mon_id}/data \
+  --conf=/var/lib/rook/${good_mon_id}/${cluster_namespace}.config \
+  --keyring=/var/lib/${good_mon_id}/keyring \
+  --monmap=/var/lib/rook/${good_mon_id}/monmap
+
+# review the contents of the monmap
+monmaptool --print /tmp/monmap 
+
+# remove the bad mon(s) from the monmap
+monmaptool ${monmap_path} --rm <bad_mon>
+
+# in this example we remove mon0 and mon2:
+monmaptool ${monmap_path} --rm rook-ceph-mon0
+monmaptool ${monmap_path} --rm rook-ceph-mon2
+
+# inject the monmap into the good mon
+ceph-mon -i ${good_mon_id} --inject-monmap ${monmap_path} \
+  --cluster=${cluster_namespace} --mon-data=/var/lib/rook/${good_mon_id}/data \
+  --conf=/var/lib/rook/${good_mon_id}/${cluster_namespace}.config \
+  --keyring=/var/lib/${good_mon_id}/keyring
+```
+
+Exit the shell to continue.
+
+## Edit the rook configmap for mons
+
+Edit the configmap that the operator uses to track the mons.
+```bash
+kubectl -n rook edit configmap rook-ceph-mon-endpoints
+```
+
+In the `data` element you will see three mons such as the following (or more depending on your `moncount`):
+```
+data: rook-ceph-mon0=10.100.35.200:6790;rook-ceph-mon1=10.100.35.233:6790;rook-ceph-mon2=10.100.35.12:6790
+```
+
+Delete the bad mons from the list, for example to end up with a single good mon:
+```
+data: rook-ceph-mon1=10.100.35.233:6790
+```
+
+Save the file and exit.
+
+## Restart the mon
+You will need to restart the good mon pod to pick up the changes. Delete the good mon pod and kubernetes will automatically restart the mon.
+```bash
+kubectl -n rook delete pod -l mon=rook-ceph-mon1
+```
+
+Start the rook [toolbox](/Documentation/toolbox.md) and verify the status of the cluster. 
+```bash
+ceph -s
+```
+
+The status should show one mon in quorum. If the status looks good, your cluster should be healthy again.
+
+## Restart the operator
+Start the rook operator again to resume monitoring the health of the cluster. 
+```bash
+# create the operator. it is safe to ignore the errors that a number of resources already exist.
+kubectl create -f rook-operator.yaml
+```
+
+The operator will automatically add more mons to increase the quorum size again, depending on the `monCount`.