[nova][ops] Problems disabling notifications on state changes

Massimo Sgaravatto massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 12:49:27 UTC 2019


Thanks a lot !
Cheers, Massimo

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:49 AM Balázs Gibizer <balazs.gibizer at ericsson.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:42 AM, Massimo Sgaravatto
> <massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am disabling ceilometer on my OpenStack Ocata cloud.
> >
> > As fas as I understand, besides stopping the ceilometer services, I
> > can also apply the following changes to nova.conf on the compute
> > nodes:
> >
> > instance_usage_audit = True --> false
> > notify_on_state_change = vm_and_task_state --> None
> >
> >
> > I have a problem with the latter change:
> >
> > # grep ^notify_on_state_change /etc/nova/nova.conf
> > notify_on_state_change=None
> >
> > but in the nova log:
> >
> > 2019-01-21 08:31:48.246 6349 ERROR nova ConfigFileValueError: Value
> > for option notify_on_state_change is not valid: Valid values are
> > [None, vm_state, vm_and_task_state], but found 'None'
> >
> >
> > I have also tried setting
> >
> > notify_on_state_change=<None>
> >
> >
> > but it complains that it is not a valid value
> >
> > I can simply comment that line, but I am afraid there is a problem
> > somewhere
>
> If you want to turn off all the notification sending from Nova, then I
> suggest to add the following [1] to the nova.conf:
>     [oslo_messaging_notifications]
>
>     driver = noop
>
>
> I verified in a devstack that if you not specify the
> notify_on_state_change attribute in the config file then it properly
> defaults to None. I think there is no way to specify the None value
> othervise in the config file.
>
> Cheers,
> gibi
> [1]
>
> https://docs.openstack.org/oslo.messaging/latest/configuration/opts.html#oslo_messaging_notifications.driver
>
> >
> > Thanks, Massimo
> >
>
>
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