feature suggestion: initial generation of management network

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barak Azulay" <bazulay at redhat.com>
> To: "Livnat Peer" <lpeer at redhat.com>
> Cc: "arch" <arch at ovirt.org>, "Alon Bar-Lev" <abarlev at redhat.com>, "Simon Grinberg" <sgrinber at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 8:21:33 AM
> Subject: Re: feature suggestion: initial generation of management network

> > you can fence the node if VDSM is non responsive, that's the mechanism
> > we use today to deal with such cases.
> 
> 
> There are already requests to enable:
> - ability to fence a host with no PM
> - ability to do less destructive fencing (= restart vdsm) when
> none-responsive and the host is accessible using SSH. This way the VMs
> running on the host will not get lost.
> 
> Both the above can be achieved as mentioned using SSH, and can't be achieved
> with the restart API to vdsm.

Why? I truly don't understand... we should make sure VDSM is responsive to accept new commands, and VDSM can either reboot machine or restart itself.

Alon