[Engine-devel] Share Your Thoughts

[Adam Litke]

On 24/03/14 08:43 -0400, Adam Litke wrote:
>On 23/03/14 10:36 -0400, Gilad Chaplik wrote:
>>>AuditLog gets recycled after 30 days. the reason i stopped my VM may
>>>still be relevant.
>>>I would not make fields complex/composite. they need to be easily
>>>useable via the CLI for example.
>>
>>I think we need multiple comments, so we need to think about the RESTful api anyhow.
>>I guess that next feature will be a reason for 'wipe after stop'/any other BE that needs reasoning.
>
>What about a new DB table (maybe called Annotations) that takes a
>business entity type, UUID, action type, timestamp, and reason string.
>Then the shutdown reason could be entered as a new row in the DB.  It
>can be kept as long as we want it and views can be adjusted to make
>these fields searchable.

I forgot to mention that this idea would make it simple to annotate
the reason for moving a host into maintenance mode as well (or any
other state change annotations we would want to make in the future).

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Adam Litke