[one-users] VMM 'unknown' state not being set?

Carlos Martín Sánchez cmartin at opennebula.org
Fri Feb 20 02:29:26 PST 2015


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Andy Coates <andy.coates at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Carlos - I thought 'd' would be marked as something else.   We're
> basically trying to flag a stopped VM but with those limited STATE options
> it doesn't seem possible.  How can we represent a 'stopped' VM in the poll
> information?
>

If the driver returns 'p', the VM is moved to SUSPEND. But you can't tell
opennebula that the VM is STOPPED, this needs to be started from the core.

Regards
--
Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmartin at opennebula.org |
@OpenNebula <http://twitter.com/opennebula> <cmartin at opennebula.org>



> On 18 February 2015 at 16:58, Carlos Martín Sánchez <
> cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Andy Coates <andy.coates at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Running OpenNebula 4.6.2
>>>
>>> We have a custom VMM driver that is set to report 'unknown' state if we
>>> can't determine the current VM state on the host.  According to the docs
>>> the '-' character indicates unknown, and as shown below ON is seeing and
>>> parsing the VMM data correctly:
>>>
>>> [VMM][D]: VM 1135 successfully monitored: USEDMEMORY=4194304 USEDCPU=800
>>> NETTX=0 NETRX=0 *STATE=-* IP=10.0.0.174
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?  Shouldn't the VM state be set to unkn/UNKNOWN
>>> in this case?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> The '-' character indicates a monitoring unexpected error, like when the
>> monitoring probes could not parse the output. In this case OpenNebula does
>> nothing, the current VM state is kept.
>> A state='d' (disappeared) indicates that the monitoring could be done
>> (hypervisor is up), but the VM was not found in the list of VMs. In this
>> case OpenNebula will set the VM to unknown.
>>
>> See:
>> http://docs.opennebula.org/4.6/integration/infrastructure_integration/devel-vmm.html#poll-information
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Carlos Martín, MSc
>> Project Engineer
>> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
>> www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmartin at opennebula.org
>>  | @OpenNebula <http://twitter.com/opennebula> <cmartin at opennebula.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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