[Users] ovirt-guest-agent issue/troubleshooting

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 14:34 +0100, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
> On 10/29/2013 02:30 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
> > 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.
> Which version of VDSM are you running on the host, if I may ask?

I'm running vdsm 4.10.3:

# rpm -qa | grep vdsm-4
vdsm-4.10.3-17.el6.x86_64



> >>
> >> /Karli
> >
> > Thanks a lot Karli - restarting vdsmd did the trick!
> >
> >>>
> >>> Thanks a lot,
> >>> René
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> Karli Sjöberg
> >> Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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> >> karli.sjoberg at slu.se
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