[ovirt-users] several questions about serial console

[Nathanaël Blanchet]

Le 19/04/2016 09:50, Michal Skrivanek a écrit :
>> On 17 Apr 2016, at 11:53, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet at abes.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 15/04/2016 17:27, Nathanaël Blanchet a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> About serial console:
>>>
>>> how to get out of a selectionned vm where we are on the login prompt (why
>>> not backing up to the vm menu) rather than killing the ssh process or
>>> closing the terminal? Usual "^] " doesn't work there.
>>> according to
>>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/Virtual_Machine_Management_Guide/index.html
>>>
>>> # ssh -t -p 2222 ovirt-vmconsole at MANAGER_IP --vm-name vm1
>>>
>>>         should allow to connect directly to a vm on its serial port, and it
>>> is very useful when there are a big number of vm. In reality, we get a SSH
>>> issue : "unknown option -- -"
>> Seems like a bug in the documentation. See also the README file:
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/ovirt-vmconsole/README on your machine, or
>>
>> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-vmconsole.git;a=blob;f=README
For those who are interested, the working way is

# ssh -t -p 2222 ovirt-vmconsole at MANAGER_IP connect --vm-name vm1

None of the official rhev doc or /usr/share/doc/ovirt-vmconsole/README 
tells about it. Connect is the implicit default argument, but we have to 
provide it so as to specify a vm name.

>>
>>> An other question is : Why the vm order is not alphabetic? it could simplify
>>> the search when too many vms are displayed. And a simple "sort -k2" command
>>> should do the stuff...
>> Please open an RFE for this. Thanks.
>>
>> I think you can do that yourself, by editing:
>>
>> /etc/ovirt-vmconsole/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy/conf.d/20-ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-helper.conf
>>
>>> if we want to add 5 users with UserVmManager role on 150 vms and I can't use
>>> group for this stuff, this means I need to do this with an ovirt-shell
>>> script like :
>>> # for i in $(cat /tmp/ids.ovirt); do for j in $(cat /tmp/list_all);do
>>> ovirt-shell -E "add permission --parent-vm-name $j --user-id $i --role-name
>>> UserVmManager"; done; done
>>> and 5*150 API connections only because I can't add several user ids on the
>>> same "add permission" line ? It's doable, but not not very convinient and
>>> very long if I have many more users to add.
>>> Why can't we add permission by user-name and not user-id ?
> That’s a limitation/design of REST API
> In the UI you can highlight multiple VMs and assign roles all in one go
> Note you don’t have to use the UserVmManager role, it’s just one of the predefined ones. If you want your own, different, role you can always define a new one and add the serial console permission
>
> Thanks,
> michal
>
>> Adding Francesco.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> -- 
>> Didi
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