[Users] Host setup for 3.1 beta

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml at conversis.de>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:12:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Host setup for 3.1 beta
> 
> On 06/19/2012 01:00 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> > Hard coded time out. The system waits five min before tiring.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Robert
> > 
> > On 06/18/2012 05:58 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> >> On 06/18/2012 10:27 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> is there a working way to add a host with the current beta code?
> >>>> I tried
> >>>> the latest node iso and also a plain Fedora 17 with the latest
> >>>> vdsm
> >>>> packages but in both cases the registration seems to succeed but
> >>>> the
> >>>> installation seems to fail.
> >>> Could you provide more information about the failure? is this the
> >>> issue
> >>> reported by Trey Dockendorf in
> >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2012-June/002466.html
> >>>
> >> Actually after seeing the "/tmp/vds_bootstrap.64713.log" bit in
> >> that mail I
> >> was able to find out what the problem was and fix it. Logs should
> >> really go
> >> into /var/log that where I was trying to find information on what
> >> was
> >> going on.
> >>
> >> The installation seems to succeed now and the Host is displayed as
> >> "Up". I
> >> got stuck almost 5 minutes in the state "Reboot" though even
> >> though the
> >> node was up in a few seconds after the reboot. What exactly is
> >> causing this
> >> long delay? Is the engine trying to contact vdsm or is the engine
> >> waiting
> >> for vdsm to connect to the engine?
> 
> Yes I figured as much but why does it time out? Who is responsible
> for
> re-establishing the connection after the reboot and why is that
> timing out?

ovirt-engine will wait for "ServerRebootTimeout" before trying to connect to the host.
IIRC that defaults to 5 minutes, but you can obviously change it.

We need to change the mechanism to be more optimistic - eg. rather than wait for ServerRebootTimeout seconds, waiting for 30 seconds, try to connect and then retry every 30 seconds until ServerRebootTimeout expires.



> 
> Regards,
>   Dennis
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