[nova][placement] Need for a nova-manage placement audit command

Matt Riedemann mriedemos at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 13:36:28 UTC 2019


Re-posting this since it came up again in IRC today.

On 9/20/2018 6:09 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> mnaser wrote a simple placement audit tool today and dumped his script 
> into a bug report [1]. It turns out several operators have already 
> written a variant of this same tool. The idea is to compare what's in 
> placement for allocations and (compute node) resource providers against 
> what's in nova for instances and compute nodes, look for orphans in 
> placement and then report them, or maybe also clean them up.
> 
> I think this could go into a "nova-manage placement audit" command and 
> should be pretty easy to write for minimum functionality (start with 
> just the report).
> 
> I'm advertising the need here in case someone wants to work on this. I'd 
> like to myself, but just can't justify the time right now.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1793569
> 

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Thanks,

Matt



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