[Users] Engine-config -s small problem

[René Koch (ovido)]

Hi,

No, oVirt isn't aware of config changes - it's by design, not a bug.

You always have to restart engine when changing values (as noted in
engine-config help text).

# engine-config -h
<snip>
### 2. In order for your change(s) to take effect,
###    restart the oVirt engine service (using: 'service ovirt-engine
restart').


Regards,
René



On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 13:57 +0200, noc wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Don't know if this is documented somewhere but I ran into an interesting 
> problem yesterday. First we had intermittent problems with ssh 
> connecting to VMs which we traced to having two oVirt installation being 
> active in one subnet. Found the post from January where it is explained 
> how engine allocates its mac address pool and how to set it with 
> engine-config -s MacPoolRanges. Today I remembered that I had done that 
> when I was about to start a VM and removed the nic from the VM and added 
> it back. To my surprise it got the same macaddress as it had (from the 
> old range). On a hunch I restarted ovirt-engine and redid the remove/add 
> operation and now it got a new mac address from the range specified.
> Shouldn't the engine be aware that the config is changed if you use 
> engine-config and reload its cached values from the database?
> I expected this but it seems not to be the case, bug or by design.
> 
> Joop
> 
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