Re: [ovirt-users] hosted engine health check issues

On 04/14/2014 11:50 AM, René Koch wrote: > Hi, > > I have some issues with hosted engine status. > > oVirt hosts think that hosted engine is down because it seems that hosts > can't write to hosted-engine.lockspace due to glusterfs issues (or at > least I think so). > > Here's the output of vm-status: > > # hosted-engine --vm-status > > > --== Host 1 status ==-- > > Status up-to-date : False > Hostname : 10.0.200.102 > Host ID : 1 > Engine status : unknown stale-data > Score : 2400 > Local maintenance : False > Host timestamp : 1397035677 > Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): > metadata_parse_version=1 > metadata_feature_version=1 > timestamp=1397035677 (Wed Apr 9 11:27:57 2014) > host-id=1 > score=2400 > maintenance=False > state=EngineUp > > > --== Host 2 status ==-- > > Status up-to-date : True > Hostname : 10.0.200.101 > Host ID : 2 > Engine status : {'reason': 'vm not running on this > host', 'health': 'bad', 'vm': 'down', 'detail': 'unknown'} > Score : 0 > Local maintenance : False > Host timestamp : 1397464031 > Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): > metadata_parse_version=1 > metadata_feature_version=1 > timestamp=1397464031 (Mon Apr 14 10:27:11 2014) > host-id=2 > score=0 > maintenance=False > state=EngineUnexpectedlyDown > timeout=Mon Apr 14 10:35:05 2014 > > oVirt engine is sending me 2 emails every 10 minutes with the following > subjects: > - ovirt-hosted-engine state transition EngineDown-EngineStart > - ovirt-hosted-engine state transition EngineStart-EngineUp > > In oVirt webadmin I can see the following message: > VM HostedEngine is down. Exit message: internal error Failed to acquire > lock: error -243. > > These messages are really annoying as oVirt isn't doing anything with > hosted engine - I have an uptime of 9 days in my engine vm. > > So my questions are now: > Is it intended to send out these messages and detect that ovirt engine > is down (which is false anyway), but not to restart the vm? > > How can I disable notifications? I'm planning to write a Nagios plugin > which parses the output of hosted-engine --vm-status and only Nagios > should notify me, not hosted-engine script. > > Is is possible or planned to make the whole ha feature optional? I > really really really hate cluster software as it causes more troubles > then standalone machines and in my case the hosted-engine ha feature > really causes troubles (and I didn't had a hardware or network outage > yet only issues with hosted-engine ha agent). I don't need any ha > feature for hosted engine. I just want to run engine virtualized on > oVirt and if engine vm fails (e.g. because of issues with a host) I'll > restart it on another node. > > Thanks, > René > > I'm pretty sure we removed hosted-engine on gluster due to concerns around the locking issues. is the gluster configured with quorum to avoid split brains?