I run it out of rc.local:
/usr/local/sbin/start_vms.py > /var/log/start_vms 2>&1 &
The script is smart enough to wait for the engine to be fully active.
-derek
On Wed, September 30, 2020 3:11 pm, Jeremey Wise wrote:
i would like to eventually go ansible route.. and was starting down
that
path.... but this is fabulous.
I will modify and post how it went.
One question: How /where do you set this saved new and delicious script
so
once oVirt-engine comes up... it runs?
Thanks
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:42 PM Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a script based around ovirt-shell which I re-wrote as a script
> around the Python SDK4 which I run on my engine during the startup
> sequence. The script will wait for the engine to come up and ensure the
> storage domains are up before it tries to start the VMs. Then it will
> go
> ahead and start the VMs in the specified order with specified delay
> and/or
> wait-for-up signal between them.
>
> You can find my scripts at
https://www.ihtfp.org/ovirt/
>
> Or you can go the ansible route :)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> -derek
>
> On Wed, September 30, 2020 11:21 am, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> > When I have to shut down cluster... ups runs out etc.. I need a
> sequence
> > set of just a small number of VMs to "autostart"
> >
> > Normally I just use DNS FQND to connect to oVirt engine but as two of
> my
> > VMs are a DNS HA cluster.. as well as NTP / SMTP /DHCP etc... I
> need
> > those two infrastructure VMs to be auto boot.
> >
> > I looked at HA settings for those VMs but it seems to be watching for
> > pause
> > /resume.. but it does not imply or state auto start on clean first
> boot.
> >
> > Options?
> >
> >
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