[OpenStack-docs] Location for nova serial console configuration

Anne Gentle annegentle at justwriteclick.com
Sat Feb 21 17:10:23 UTC 2015


On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Someone in #openstack couldn't find documentation on nova serial console
> configuration and I know we added it to the admin guide a couple of weeks
> ago [1]. I couldn't find it either until I looked at the source and found
> it under "logging" [2] rather than "remote access" [3]. Prior to Juno, nova
> serial console was read-only and therefore served more of a logging
> function. However, read-write serial console access in Juno serves more of
> a remote access function similar to NoVNC and SPICE. Should we separate the
> read-write content from the read-only content and move it to the remote
> access section?
>

Looks like it can be configured either way:
"It is possible to configure either read-only console
logs, or read-and-write logs. Currently, both options
are not available together."

Why's it called serial console? Maybe that background would help me
understand.

Anne



>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149533
> [2]
> http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/section_manage-logs.html
> [3]
> http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/remote-console-access.html
>
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