[Users] ovirt-guest-agent issue/troubleshooting

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 13:23 +0000, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> tis 2013-10-29 klockan 14:15 +0100 skrev René Koch (ovido): 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have some issues with ovirt-guest-agent as no information is reported
> > from guest-agent to oVirt webadmin anymore.
> > I'm unsure when I lost the information - I know for sure it worked last
> > month when I tested the guest agent packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Status now is that I don't receive any data.
> > I have the following test vms:
> > * RHEL 6 with rhevm-guest-agent 1.0.7 (RHEV repository)
> > * RHEL 6 with ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.8 (EPEL)
> > * openSUSE 12.3 with ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.8.1 (self compiled)
> > 
> > Both RHEL server reported information (memory, ip-address,...)
> > previously.
> > The only changes which could broke the guest agent communication are
> > updates on the CentOS host and the engine.
> > 
> > Can you give me some hints how to troubleshoot the guest agent? I can't
> > find any information (or don't know the right pattern to search for) in
> > vdsm.log and engine.log. Guest agent is running in the vms, but doesn't
> > log anything except start and stop of the service (can I change the
> > handler_logfile args for more debugging and if yes how?):
> > 
> > # tail /var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log 
> > MainThread::INFO::2013-10-29
> > 11:00:15,340::ovirt-guest-agent::37::root::Starting oVirt guest agent
> > 
> > Btw, I'm running oVirt 3.2.3...
> 
> This has happened for me in the past and putting the Host in
> maintenance and then restarting the vdsmd solved it.
> 
> /Karli


Thanks a lot Karli - restarting vdsmd did the trick!

> 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > René
> > 
> > 
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