[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine::(score) Penalizing score by 1600 due to network status

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:39 AM Christoph Timm <ovirt(a)timmi.org&gt; wrote: > > Am 19.07.21 um 10:25 schrieb Yedidyah Bar David: >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:02 AM Christoph Timm <ovirt(a)timmi.org&gt; wrote: >>> Am 19.07.21 um 09:27 schrieb Yedidyah Bar David: >>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Christoph Timm <ovirt(a)timmi.org&gt; wrote: >>>>> Hi Didi, >>>>> >>>>> thank you for the quick response. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Am 19.07.21 um 07:59 schrieb Yedidyah Bar David: >>>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 8:39 AM Christoph Timm <ovirt(a)timmi.org&gt; wrote: >>>>>>> Hi List, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm trying to understand why my hosted engine is moved from one node to >>>>>>> another from time to time. >>>>>>> It is happening sometime multiple times a day. But there are also days >>>>>>> without it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I can see the following in the ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log: >>>>>>> ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine::(score) >>>>>>> Penalizing score by 1600 due to network status >>>>>>> >>>>>>> After that the engine will be shutdown and started on another host. >>>>>>> The oVirt Admin portal is showing the following around the same time: >>>>>>> Invalid status on Data Center Default. Setting status to Non Responsive. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But the whole cluster is working normally during that time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I believe that I have somehow a network issue on my side but I have no >>>>>>> clue what kind of check is causing the network status to penalized. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Does anyone have an idea how to investigate this further? >>>>>> Please check also broker.log. Do you see 'dig' failures? >>>>> Yes I found them as well. >>>>> >>>>> Thread-1::WARNING::2021-07-19 >>>>> 08:02:00,032::network::120::network.Network::(_dns) DNS query failed: >>>>> ; <<>> DiG 9.11.26-RedHat-9.11.26-4.el8_4 <<>> +tries=1 +time=5 >>>>> ;; global options: +cmd >>>>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached >>>>> >>>>>> This happened several times already on our CI infrastructure, but yours is >>>>>> the first report from an actual real user. See also: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/infra@ovirt.org/thread/LIGS5WXGEKWA... >>>>> So I understand that the following command is triggered to test the >>>>> network: "dig +tries=1 +time=5" >>>> Indeed. >>>> >>>>>> I didn't open a bug for this (yet?), also because I never reproduced on my >>>>>> own machines and am not sure about the exact failing flow. If this is >>>>>> reproducible >>>>>> reliably for you, you might want to test the patch I pushed: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/+/115596 >>>>> I'm happy to give it a try. >>>>> Please confirm that I need to replace this file (network.py) on all my >>>>> nodes (CentOS 8.4 based) which can host my engine. >>>> It definitely makes sense to do so, but in principle there is no problem >>>> with applying it only on some of them. That's especially useful if you try >>>> this first on a test env and try to enforce a reproduction somehow (overload >>>> the network, disconnect stuff, etc.). >>> OK will give it a try and report back. >> Thanks and good luck.

>> >>>>>> Other ideas/opinions about how to enhance this part of the monitoring >>>>>> are most welcome. >>>>>> >>>>>> If this phenomenon is new for you, and you can reliably say it's not due to >>>>>> a recent "natural" higher network load, I wonder if it's due to some weird >>>>>> bug/change somewhere. >>>>> I'm quite sure that I see this since we moved to 4.4.(4). >>>>> Just for house keeping I'm running 4.4.7 now. >>>> We use 'dig' as the network monitor since 4.3.5, around one year before 4.4 >>>> was released: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1659052 >>>> >>>> Which version did you use before 4.4? >>> The last 4.3 versions have been 4.3.7, 4.3.9 and 4.3.10 before migrating >>> to 4.4.4. >> I now realize that in above-linked bug we only changed the default, for new >> setups. So if you deployed He before 4.3.5, upgrade to later 4.3 would not >> change the default (as opposed to upgrade to 4.4, which was actually a >> new deployment with engine backup/restore). Do you know which version >> your cluster was originally deployed with? > Hm, I'm sorry but I don't recall this. I'm quite sure that we started OK, thanks for trying. > with 4.0 something. But we moved to a HE setup around September 2019. > But I don't recall the version. But we installed also the backup from > the old installation into the HE environment if I'm not wrong. If indeed this change was the trigger for you, you can rather easily try to change this to 'ping' and see if this helps - I think it's enough to change 'network_test' to 'ping' in /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf and restart the broker - didn't try, though. But generally speaking, I do not think we want to change the default back to 'ping', but rather make 'dns' work better/well. We had valid reasons to move away from ping...

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