Symptoms
Assume that you have configured AlwaysOn Availability Group by using Pacemaker for SQL Server 2017 or 2019 on Linux. While connecting to SQL Server, you notice that intermittent Availability Group failover occurs as AG helper connection times out.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
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More Information
Assume that you have configured Availability Group (AG) by using Pacemaker for SQL Server 2017 or 2019 on Linux. Consider that the pacemaker AG helper resource agent is using the following cluster configuration file as highlighted. AG helper is using the connection interval of 10 seconds, connection timeout of 30 seconds and monitor timeout of 90 seconds for health check.
<master id="ha_cluster-master">
<primitive class="ocf" id="ha_cluster" provider="mssql" type="ag">
<instance_attributes id="ha_cluster-instance_attributes">
<nvpair id="ha_cluster-instance_attributes-ha_name" name="ha_name" value="TEST_AG"/>
<nvpair id="ha_cluster-instance_attributes-trace_ra" name="trace_ra" value="1"/>
</instance_attributes>
<operations>
<op id="ha_cluster-demote-interval-0s" interval="0s" name="demote" timeout="300"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-monitor-interval-60s" interval="60s" name="monitor" timeout="100"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-monitor-interval-11" interval="10" name="monitor" role="Master" timeout="90"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-monitor-interval-12" interval="12" name="monitor" role="Slave" timeout="60"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-notify-interval-0s" interval="0s" name="notify" timeout="60"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-promote-interval-0s" interval="0s" name="promote" timeout="60"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-start-interval-0s" interval="0s" name="start" timeout="60"/>
<op id="ha_cluster-stop-interval-0s" interval="0s" name="stop" timeout="300"/>
</operations>
<meta_attributes id="ha_cluster-meta_attributes">
<nvpair id="ha_cluster-meta_attributes-timeout" name="timeout" value="30s"/>
<nvpair id="ha_cluster-meta_attributes-failure-timeout" name="failure-timeout" value="60s"/>
</meta_attributes>
</primitive>
<meta_attributes id="ha_cluster-master-meta_attributes">
<nvpair id="ha_cluster-master-meta_attributes-notify" name="notify" value="true"/>
<nvpair id="ha_cluster-master-meta_attributes-trace_ra" name="trace_ra" value="1"/>
</meta_attributes>
</master>
Prior to Cumulative Update 21 (CU21) for SQL Server 2017, if AG health check connection times out while connecting to SQL Server, a demote action was initiated leading to failover of AG to secondary node.
From CU21 onwards, if a connection timeout occurs, AG helper resource agent will honor the monitor timeout of 90 seconds, and will attempt two more connections. If all three connection attempts fail, AG helper resource agent will declare the SQL Server as unresponsive and start the demote action leading to failover of the Availability Group to secondary node.
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