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FAR: Add Supported RHEL Agents

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      There are few agents that are supported by RH/RHEL and are not included under the fence-agents-all package - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jwv1--AbEV_7hbMLWz7jKl8-ZY1r7xggWwGrlqe0Ys0/edit#heading=h.4vjzvhtgx3ke

      To search for them easily, run one of the following commands:

      • (ubi) dnf search fence-agents-  
      •  (ubi-minimal) microdnf repoquery fence-agents- 
      • (CentOSdocker run --rm -it quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 /bin/bash -c "dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core && dnf --enablerepo=highavailability search fence-agents" 

      Five agents that can be included:

      1. fence_kubevirt - https://www.mankier.com/8/fence_kubevirt 
      2. fence_ibm_powervs - https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/kinetic/man8/fence_ibm_powervs.8.html 
      3. fence_ibm_vpc - https://www.mankier.com/8/fence_ibm_vpc 
      4. fence_virt - https://linux.die.net/man/8/fence_virt or https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/fence_configuration_guide/s1-software-fence-virt-ca 
      5. fence_lpar - https://linux.die.net/man/8/fence_lpar 

      03/2025: Related discussion https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C03M5GKJNBA/p1741014098715169?thread_ts=1740484648.793089&cid=C03M5GKJNBA

      Furthermore, three cloud agents might be available in UBI9:

      1. fence_aws - https://www.mankier.com/8/fence_aws 
      2. fence_gce -  https://www.mankier.com/8/fence_gce 
      3. fence_azure_arm - https://www.mankier.com/8/fence_azure_arm 

      08/2025

      ➜  ~ docker run --rm -it quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 /bin/bash -c "dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core && dnf --enablerepo=highavailability search fence-agents".
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      CentOS Stream 9 - HighAvailability                                                                                                                                     545 kB/s | 743 kB     00:01    
      Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Sun Aug  3 12:31:04 2025.
      ===================================================================================== Name Matched: fence-agents ======================================================================================
      fence-agents-aliyun.x86_64 : Fence agent for Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
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      fence-agents-kubevirt.x86_64 : Fence agent for KubeVirt platform
      fence-agents-lpar.noarch : Fence agent for IBM LPAR
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      Note: supported agents in OpenStack https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/17.1/html/managing_high_availability_services/assembly_fencing-controller-nodes_rhosp#con_supported-fencing-agents_fencing 

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