[openstack-dev] [trove] Confused about nova_proxy_admin_* settings

Mark Kirkwood mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz
Thu Jan 22 00:34:56 UTC 2015


Thanks Nikhil,

I figured I must have missed something that actually used the proxy - I 
didn't have metering enabled in devstack. I'll enable it and (I guess) 
it should fail until I give it correct proxy admin credentials...

Cheers

Mark

On 22/01/15 05:55, Nikhil Manchanda wrote:
> Hi Mark:
>
> It's been a little while since I looked at this last, but as I recall these
> values seem
> to be used and needed only by the trove taskmanager. If you have support
> for
> metering messages turned on, this account gets used to look up instance
> details
> when sending periodic metering messages to an AMQP exchange.
>
> These aren't needed on the guest-agent, and that's probably the reason why a
> non-existing value of "radmin" seems to work. The fact that this exists in
> the guest
> configuration as well is probably a bug and should be cleaned up.
>
> Cheers,
> Nikhil
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Mark Kirkwood <
> mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at how the 3 nova_proxy_admin_* settings are used. I'm
>> coming to the conclusion that I'm confused:
>>
>> E.g I note that a standard devstack (stable/juno branch) with trove
>> enabled sets these as follows:
>>
>> nova_proxy_admin_pass =
>> nova_proxy_admin_tenant_name = trove
>> nova_proxy_admin_user = radmin
>>
>>
>> However there is no 'radmin' user (or role) created in keystone, so the
>> settings above cannot possibly work (if they were needed/used). Some
>> experimentation involving removing these three settings from all of the
>> trove config files seems to support the idea that they are in fact not
>> needed, which has me somewhat puzzled.
>>
>> If someone could shed some light here that would be awesome!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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