[openstack-dev] [Magnum] API service won't work if conductor down?

Corey O'Brien coreypobrien at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 13:19:34 UTC 2016


The service-* commands aren't related to the magnum services (e.g.
magnum-conductor). The service-* commands are for services on the bay that
the user creates and deletes.

Corey

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:25 AM Eli Qiao <liyong.qiao at intel.com> wrote:

> hi
> Whey I try to run magnum service-list to list all services (seems now we
> only have m-cond service), it m-cond is down(which means no conductor at
> all),
> API won't response and will return a timeout error.
>
> taget at taget-ThinkStation-P300:~/devstack$ magnum service-list
> ERROR: Timed out waiting for a reply to message ID
> fd1e9529f60f42bf8db903bbf75bbade (HTTP 500)
>
> And I debug more and compared with nova service-list, nova will give
> response and will tell the conductor is down.
>
> and deeper I get this in magnum-api boot up:
>
> *    # Enable object backporting via the conductor*
> *    base.MagnumObject.indirection_api = base.MagnumObjectIndirectionAPI()*
>
> so in magnum_service api code
>
>         return objects.MagnumService.list(context, limit, marker, sort_key,
>                                           sort_dir)
>
> will require to use magnum-conductor to access DB, but no magnum-conductor
> at all, then we get a 500 error.
> (nova-api doesn't specify *indirection_api so nova-api can access DB*)
>
> My question is:
>
> 1) is this by designed that we don't allow magnum-api to access DB
> directly ?
> 2) if 1) is by designed, then `magnum service-list` won't work, and the
> error message should be improved such as "magnum service is down , please
> check magnum conductor is alive"
>
> What do you think?
>
> P.S. I tested comment this line:
> *# base.MagnumObject.indirection_api = base.MagnumObjectIndirectionAPI()*
> magnum-api will response but failed to create bay(), which means api
> service have read access but can not write it at all since(all db write
> happened in conductor layer).
>
> --
> Best Regards, Eli(Li Yong)Qiao
> Intel OTC China
>
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