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On 04/10/2015 08:11 AM, John Griffith wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:16 AM, liuxinguo <liuxinguo at huawei.com 
> <mailto:liuxinguo at huawei.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>
>     When we create a volume in the horizon, there may occurrs some
>     errors at the driver
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>     backend, and the in horizon we just see a “error” in the volume
>     status.
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>     So is there any way to put the error information to the horizon so
>     users can know what happened exactly just from the horizon?
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>     Thanks,
>
>     Liu
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> ​The challenge here is that the calls to the driver are async, so we 
> don't actually have any direct feedback/messages regarding the 
> result.  One thing that's been talked about in the past is adding 
> additional information to the status which could be presented so that 
> end users and tools like Horizon would have a little more information.
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> The trick is however we also do NOT want driver info going back to the 
> end user, the whole point of Cinder is to abstract all of that backend 
> specific type stuff.  The idea kicked around in the past was to 
> introduce a sub-state with a bit more detail, but still wouldn't be 
> anything specific from the driver.
>
> Sounds like a good topic to revisit for the Liberty release.​


Agreed that driver messages shouldn't reach the end user, but would it 
be helpful at all to the administrator to have driver error messages 
visible on the admin panel?

-Ben


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