Re: [Users] [Engine-devel] Polling vs Pushing engine events

On 12/17/2013 03:08 AM, Sven Kieske wrote: > Hi, > > we got the following problem: > > we create / start / stop > hole vms /data centers / storage etc > (basically: everything ovirt can handle > via REST-API) > > But if you want to know e.g. the status > of a vm (or anything) you need to constantly > poll the API. > > This is not what we desire to do, as it > does not scale very well (e.g. polling > 100 vms). > well, you can search events since last event you searched for, only for the specific type of event you are interested in, then check which vm its for. > Is there a standardized way of pushing information > from the engine? > > > well, the notification service which sends emails on these actually polls for them every minute in order to send the emails. we are discussing snmptraps here[1] one of the options this could be implemented with is via log4j getting all the audit log events, then you could use any log4j appender (db table, jms queue, etc.) [1] Bug 1032661 - Add SNMP trap as notification method to to ovirt-engine-notification _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel