[Openstack-operators] New services disable reason

Alex Leonhardt aleonhardt.py at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 16:31:17 UTC 2015


:) did that too just now. ta!

On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 16:28:36 Michael Dorman <mdorman at godaddy.com> wrote:

>   +1 as well, for the same reasons.  I also added by +1 to the review.
> Thanks!
>
>
>   From: Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 1:02 AM
> To: Belmiro Moreira <moreira.belmiro.email.lists at gmail.com>, OpenStack
> Operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] New services disable reason
>
>   Our install is still quite small and we take the risk of hitting that
> compute node whilst the service is starting,  but we haven't actually
> encountered that yet (probably a user base size issue) ...
>
> IMHO, having a reason why stuff is disabled avoids hours of confusion and
> trying to find the person who 'did it'.
>
> In terms of keeping track, I'd have thought that the dashboard admin panel
> can show you service states and I'd expect a disabled service to say
> 'disabled', but again we don't even use this feature at the moment.
>
> +1 from me :)
>
> Alex
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:34 Belmiro Moreira <
> moreira.belmiro.email.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> as operators I would like to have your comments/suggestions on:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/136645/1
>>
>>
>>  With a large number of nodes several services are disabled because
>> various reasons (in our case mainly hardware interventions).
>> To help operations we use the "disable reason" as fast filter to identify
>> why the service is disabled.
>>
>>  At same time, we add several new nodes (nova-compute) per week.
>>  At CERN to avoid adding a service when the daemon starts for the first
>> time nova is configured with:
>> enable_new_services=False
>> This is great, however no "disable reason" is set.
>> For us having services disabled with no reason specified creates
>> additional checks.
>>
>>  How are others keeping track of disabled services?
>>
>>
>>  Belmiro
>> ---
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