[Openstack-operators] [nova] Obtaining nova settings at runtime

Chris Friesen chris.friesen at windriver.com
Wed Jun 14 19:21:25 UTC 2017


On 06/14/2017 10:31 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 6/14/2017 10:57 AM, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>> Is there a way to obtain nova configuration settings at runtime without
>> resorting to SSHing onto the compute host and greping nova.conf? For
>> instance a CLI call? At the moment I'm looking at cpu_allocation_ratio
>> and ram_allocation_ratio. There may be more along this vein.
>>
>> Alles Gute,
>> Carlos Konstanski
>>
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>
> No there isn't.
>
> For the specific case you're looking for though, you could use the Placement
> REST API:
>
> http://docs-draft.openstack.org/32/470932/5/check/gate-placement-api-ref-nv/771f604//placement-api-ref/build/html/?expanded=show-resource-provider-detail,show-resource-provider-inventory-detail
>
>
> Using ^ you could get the VCPU resource class inventory allocation ratio for a
> given resource provider, where an example of a resource provider is a compute node.
>
> For a compute node resource provider, the uuid is the same as the
> compute_nodes.uuid field and the name is the compute_nodes.hypervisor_hostname
> field.

There's a small complication here...if AggregateRamFilter/AggregateCoreFilter 
scheduler filters are enabled the cpu_allocation_ratio and ram_allocation_ratio 
set in nova.conf on the compute nodes can be overwridden by ratios set in the 
aggregates.

Chris




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