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6d67e8bf 07/17/2013 11:14 am Izhar

Design Doc for HugePages Support

Add design document for the "HugePages support" GSoC project.

Signed-off-by: Izhar ul Hassan <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Thrainer <>

c832f7e9 07/16/2013 10:29 am Klaus Aehlig

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into master

  • stable-2.8
    Change method dispatch in ClientOps to enforce luxi.REQ_ALL
    Allow modify_etc_hosts to be changed
    Add --modify-etc-hosts option for CLI tools
    Add luxiReqQueryNetworks to LuxiOp
    Log received message at debug level...
4eb06290 07/15/2013 05:24 pm Klaus Aehlig

Merge branch 'stable-2.7' into stable-2.8

  • stable-2.7
    Fix RAPI to include missing network fields
    Add support for querying network timestamps
    In the crontab example, look for the correct binary
    Fix wrong numbering in UPGRADE documentation

Conflicts:...

99b67c35 07/10/2013 02:37 pm Spyros Trigazis

Add design for mond's CPU load collector

This commit extends monitoring agent's design document, with the
design of a new data collector that will provide CPU load statistics.
It also extends the monitoring agent's design to include:

  • a new thread which triggers the collection of data...
5f7d4181 07/10/2013 02:04 pm Jose A. Lopes

Fix single-execution of Haskell tests and shelltests

Add Makefile.am target hs-test-% for single-execution of Haskell
tests.

Add Makefile.am target hs-shell-% for single-execution of Haskell
shelltests.

Update documentation on running individual tests....

20029b6e 07/09/2013 06:15 pm Sebastian Gebhard

More details on vlan support in openvswitch

This design doc give a more detailed design about the implementation
of openvswitch in regareds of VLANs.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Gebhard <>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

927840bc 07/09/2013 12:22 pm Klaus Aehlig

In the crontab example, look for the correct binary

When ganeti-master-cleaner was merged back into ganeti-cleaner in 46118ed2,
the binary to test for should have also been updated. Do this now.

Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

76825515 07/05/2013 03:12 pm Klaus Aehlig

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into master

  • stable-2.8:
    Also remove prop_IterateAlloc_sane from test list
    Fix documentation for prop_Alloc_sane
    Remove IterateAllocSane test
    Clean up work around for host name filtering
    Do not handle host queries special...
5ab57a1e 07/05/2013 01:03 pm Klaus Aehlig

Merge branch 'stable-2.7' into stable-2.8

  • stable-2.7:
    Release version 2.7.0
    Fix "instance replace" typo in admin.rst
    Fix typo in the install guide
    Disable pylint E1101 on hypothetical import

Conflicts:
NEWS: trivial
configure.ac: trivial

Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>...

fbfa1d19 07/04/2013 08:02 pm Michele Tartara

Better specify LVInfo "instance" field

Specify that it is serialized as "null" if empty.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

513c5e25 07/03/2013 12:40 pm Helga Velroyen

Mention alternative template selection in design doc

This is a small adjustment of the design doc
'design-storagetypes.rst' with respect to the selection
of the default disk template.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

fe0d94d8 07/03/2013 10:20 am Guido Trotter

Fix "instance replace" typo in admin.rst

gnt-instance `replace` should read `replace-disks`

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

e58c4f2c 07/02/2013 02:43 pm Michele Tartara

Fix typo in the install guide

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

a1f2fb58 07/01/2013 02:33 pm Michele Tartara

Add design for LV data collector

Add a section describing the logical volume data collector to the design
document for the monitoring agent.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

fae96b7c 07/01/2013 02:32 pm Michele Tartara

Minor fixes to monitoring design doc

Add a missing full stop, and fix a sentence about the storage collectors.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

88e23508 07/01/2013 02:32 pm Michele Tartara

Fix documentation formatting issue

One line was longer than 80 characters.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

3771161c 06/28/2013 02:23 pm Sebastian Gebhard

Design doc for openvswitch support

This patch includes the design document for openvswitch support

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Gebhard <>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

a4669456 06/28/2013 01:20 pm Dimitris Aragiorgis

Document vif-ganeti usage

In order to be able to use it as vif-script one has to
create a symbolic link inside /etc/xen/scripts pointing
to /usr/lib/ganeti/vif-ganeti and then add is a hypervisor
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Dimitris Aragiorgis <>...

0102e732 06/28/2013 12:46 pm Klaus Aehlig

Update design document for hroller

The requirement to be able to plan full node evacuation came up after
the initial design. So add a section describing the algorithm, if
full evacuation is requested.

Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

ee414f1c 06/28/2013 11:59 am Michele Tartara

Add documentation for harep

Include a section in the Administrator's guide describing how to use the
autorepair tool.

Fixes Issue 446

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Thrainer <>

6f666c50 06/28/2013 11:59 am Michele Tartara

Fix typo in ganeti-2.8 design doc

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

d71b0275 06/27/2013 12:05 pm Helga Velroyen

Typo in iallocator design doc

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

dad226e3 06/26/2013 12:18 pm Thomas Thrainer

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into master

  • stable-2.8:
    gnt-cluster info (py): add enabled disk templates
    Version bump to 2.8.0~beta1
    Change version numbers in documentation
    Fix issue with python coverage tests
    Merge branch 'stable-2.7' into stable-2.8...
b031e99d 06/24/2013 01:29 pm Michele Tartara

Change version numbers in documentation

Some of the documents have the version number of Ganeti. This commit updates
it in preparation for the 2.8 version bump.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Thrainer <>

50119242 06/24/2013 11:16 am Weiwei Jia

Doc for GlusterFS Ganeti Support

This patch adds a design document for introducing GlusterFS Support in Ganeti.

Signed-off-by: Weiwei Jia <>
Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

12443fb8 06/21/2013 03:08 pm Michele Tartara

Fix typo in the documentation index

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

864b57d7 06/21/2013 03:08 pm Weiwei Jia

Fix typos in the documentation index

This patch fixes some typos in the documentation index.

Signed-off-by: Weiwei Jia <>
Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

cd30f3e6 06/21/2013 02:53 pm Michele Tartara

Update security document wrt confd access to SSL cert

The fact that confd has been given access to the server.pem certificate
needs to be described in the security document.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

f5c4553b 06/18/2013 06:24 pm Michele Tartara

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into 'master'

  • stable-2.8
    Version bump to 2.8.0~alpha1
    Make cfgupgrade idempotent
    Update config version number when downgrading
    Add test for shrink heuristics over different resources
    Improve hspace shrinking strategy...
96357135 06/12/2013 07:22 pm Michele Tartara

Restructure documentation index page

The index page of the documentation used to be just a list of links.
Now it is a proper introduction to all the other pages.

Fixes Issue 424.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

ac0af025 06/04/2013 06:11 pm Michele Tartara

Document the monitoring daemon in the admin guide

The administrator's guide must include a section describing the monitoring
daemon and its API, in order for the users to be able to use it.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

431ff2c1 06/04/2013 06:11 pm Michele Tartara

Factor out the API of the monitoring daemon

It will be included by both the design document and the user documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

0a689f79 06/04/2013 06:10 pm Michele Tartara

Add monitoring agent info to the security document

Add information regarding the monitoring agent and its security to
the security document.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

92070017 06/04/2013 04:22 pm Michele Tartara

Fix shadowing of library function

The "reads" field shadows a library function from Prelude. This commit
fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

777a3109 06/03/2013 06:08 pm Michele Tartara

Add design for diskstats data collector

This patch adds the design for the lowest level storage collector,
gathering data about disk usage statistics.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

05f88ad6 06/03/2013 06:08 pm Michele Tartara

Modify storage collector design

Specify better how the storage collectors will actually be implemented.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

342a9b3b 05/31/2013 04:36 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into master

  • stable-2.8:
    Document users-setup tool
    Adjusting permissions after confd start
    Ensure the queue socket has the right permissions
    Update IAllocator interface documentation
    Add NEWS entry for hail honoring networks...
e41d5a22 05/31/2013 01:45 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Merge branch 'stable-2.7' into stable-2.8

  • stable-2.7:
    Document users-setup tool
    Adjusting permissions after confd start
    Ensure the queue socket has the right permissions
    Update IAllocator interface documentation

Conflicts:
doc/iallocator.rst
...

60af7882 05/31/2013 01:05 am Michele Tartara

Document users-setup tool

The users-setup tool was added but had no documentation up to now. This commit
fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>

e7e8b4db 05/29/2013 11:07 am Thomas Thrainer

Update IAllocator interface documentation

Update the missing documentation for the tags fields of node groups.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Thrainer <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>
(partially cherry picked from commit 2daca99b5be21ea4667637721ee2c65a14444520)...

2daca99b 05/29/2013 10:52 am Thomas Thrainer

Update IAllocator interface documentation

Document the newly added network field of node groups, and also update
the missing documentation for the other fields of node groups.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Thrainer <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

a9310b5b 05/24/2013 02:30 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'stable-2.8'

  • stable-2.8:
    Bump up version for 2.7.0~rc2 release
    Create overall design document for 2.8
    Add NEWS entry for SO_PEERCRED fix
    Workaround missing SO_PEERCRED
    Add debugging clause to _ExpandCheckDisks error
    Reduce pylint maximum file length to 4500...
328201a5 05/24/2013 02:26 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'stable-2.7' into stable-2.8

  • stable-2.7:
    Bump up version for 2.7.0~rc2 release
    Add NEWS entry for SO_PEERCRED fix
    Workaround missing SO_PEERCRED
    Add debugging clause to _ExpandCheckDisks error
    Mention hail network incompatibility in manpages...
fab0cf66 05/23/2013 02:15 pm Michele Tartara

Create overall design document for 2.8

Also, cleanup the list of draft designs.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

ca93ea0a 05/23/2013 10:32 am Michele Tartara

Design doc for internal shutdown detection

Ganeti is currently not able to detect a legit shutdown request performed by a
user from inside a Xen domain.

This patch provides a design document to implement a mechanism able to cope with
such events.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>...

f3defd7f 05/22/2013 12:42 pm Thomas Thrainer

Remove obsolete Debian-related documentation

This part of the documentation refers to Grub instead of Grub2, but
Grub2 has been the standard boot loader since Squeeze. As this part only
(wrongly) repeats the preceeding documentation, it's removed completely....

216cb5af 05/22/2013 11:56 am Thomas Thrainer

Improve installation documentation

Based on user feedback the installation documentation is clarified and
extended.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Thrainer <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>
(cherry picked from commit 3913eaa72b8a48706ca4caa59dd022fa1a05805a)...

3913eaa7 05/22/2013 11:02 am Thomas Thrainer

Improve installation documentation

Based on user feedback the installation documentation is clarified and
extended.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Thrainer <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

1bb99a33 05/17/2013 05:42 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into master

  • stable-2.8: (45 commits)
    Update NEWS with disk creation fixes
    Sort cmdlib-related entries in Makefile.am
    cmdlib: Cleanup public/private functions
    cmdlib: Extract instance query related functionality
    cmdlib: Extract instance operation functionality...
42b50796 05/13/2013 04:20 pm Michele Tartara

Monitoring design doc: better specify field names

The name of the list of instances was not specified.

Also, fix a line that was longer than 80 characters.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

9524c4c4 05/08/2013 03:47 pm Weiwei Jia

Fix a misspelled word in design-storagetypes

Signed-off-by: Weiwei Jia <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

32f88ce7 05/07/2013 11:58 am Helga Velroyen

Correction of design doc regarding RPC extension

This corrects the storage types design doc regarding the specification
of the RPC call.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>
Reviewed-by: Bernardo dal Seno <>

4a4697de 05/06/2013 05:58 pm Klaus Aehlig

Change design of algorithm for computing rolling reboots

Instead of computing a coloring for one condition first and then refining
it for the other condition, we can construct a graph with edges for all
conditions that prevent simultaneous reboots. This will not only result...

f2d87a5e 05/03/2013 04:47 pm Michele Tartara

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/stable-2.8'

Conflicts:
lib/bdev.py
lib/cmdlib.py

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

f583e7ad 05/03/2013 12:09 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Fix white spaces in partitioned design doc

Bullet lists start after a blank line.

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

8a96e60d 05/03/2013 12:09 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Reuse current spindles in design for partitioned

Renaming the current parameters dealing with spindles is nice, as their
meaning would be clearer, but that would mean changing a lot of code,
change external interfaces, and renaming internal variables for little...

bcba4e01 05/03/2013 11:38 am Michele Tartara

Merge stable-2.7 into stable-2.8

Conflicts:
INSTALL
NEWS
configure.ac
src/Ganeti/Query/Group.hs
test/hs/Test/Ganeti/Objects.hs
test/hs/Test/Ganeti/Query/Query.hs

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

da535d0d 05/02/2013 12:16 pm Guido Trotter

admin guide updates for 2.7

- Mention the file-storage-paths config file
- Add information about sharedfile and ext storage types
- Change one manpage reference to a proper link

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

db0e97f0 05/01/2013 08:34 pm Guido Trotter

INSTALL updates for wheezy, and fixes

- Remove mention of python 2.4 specific modules, as that version
is not supported anymore
- Add bitarray and ipaddr
- Remove a double space
- Add mandatory C library packages too
- Mention the option of using drbd modules directly from your kernel...

2bd9ec7c 04/30/2013 06:38 pm Michele Tartara

Update "reason" field in instance status design

Now the reason field is implemented according to the reason trail design
document.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

3a388363 04/30/2013 10:55 am Michele Tartara

Improve monitoring agent design document

Specify more precisely the format of the category names.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

5519f036 04/29/2013 11:13 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Merge branch 'stable-2.8' into master

  • stable-2.8: (42 commits)
    Add shelltests for hspace allocation
    hspace: Handle multiple ipolicy specs
    QA: Test multiple instance specs
    QA: Handle multiple instance specs
    Unit test for cli.FormatPolicyInfo()...
7a694e30 04/29/2013 07:05 pm Thomas Thrainer

Add dependency on python-mock

Python Mock (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/) is a mocking
library for Python. It is included in the standard Python distribution
as of Python 3.3, but has been around for quite a while. Debian unstable
contains a version we require....

41044e04 04/29/2013 06:53 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Add multiple min/max specs in instance policy

Now instance policies can contain more than one min/max specs. This is the
main element of the "Constrained instance sizes" section in the
"Partitioned Ganeti" design doc.

This is a big patch, but changing the type of a configuration item requires...

95990bc5 04/24/2013 07:53 pm Klaus Aehlig

Merge branch 'stable-2.7' into stable-2.8

Conflicts:
NEWS
doc/rapi.rst

Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

0da22bc3 04/22/2013 07:13 pm Sebastian Gebhard

Minor changes / bugfixes in documentation

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Gebhard <>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Aehlig <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

c2610080 04/22/2013 02:09 pm Michele Tartara

More specifics on the implementation of the reason trail

Adding the reason trail as a parameter instead of as a new class attribute fits
better with the current structure of the system.

Also, the description of what part of the implementation will be OpCode...

a0eb7c36 04/19/2013 02:23 pm Guido Trotter

Use correct name for design-storagespace.rst

This was renamed in b284f50 but the old name was still in use in the
makefile and draft designs list.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

b284f504 04/18/2013 09:59 pm Helga Velroyen

Rename design doc from space reporting to storage types

Since the design doc for storage space reporting ended up being mostly
about disk templates and storage types, and the space reporting being
just a small part of it, I am renaming the design doc.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>...

87c7621a 04/18/2013 09:59 pm Helga Velroyen

Storage type design doc: ipolicy vs. enabled disk templates

Adding the design decision regarding the consistency of the enabled disk
templates in the ipolicy and in the cluster config.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Aehlig <>

f1a84264 04/17/2013 05:48 pm Christos Stavrakakis

Add design doc for device UUIDs and names

This commit adds the design document for adding UUID and name slots to NIC and
Disk objects and the ability to refer to them by these slots.

Signed-off-by: Christos Stavrakakis <>
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Aragiorgis <>...

bfcd1652 04/12/2013 01:12 pm Michele Tartara

Improve RAPI documentation for command line usage

Provide some more insights about how to use the RAPI from the command line
through the "curl" command.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

a9f27253 04/12/2013 01:12 pm Michele Tartara

More info on using the RAPI

Add some additional information about how to use/test the RAPI,
including how to specify authentication credentials.

Cherry picked from 681f4f7bb95a2b467f917c84a68ccf9aa7665763 on master.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>...

6559d7f8 04/05/2013 02:02 pm Helga Velroyen

Extension of storage reporting design doc

This patch rewrites and extends the design doc about storage reporting
with respect to disk templates and storage types. In constrast to the
previous version, we now consider disk templates as the user-facing
entity, that the user can dis/enable for the cluster. Storage types...

91fb0d18 04/04/2013 12:14 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Document procedure to downgrade a cluster

This is based on the --donwgrade option of cfgupgrade, first introduced in
1709435e.

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

f0eeeb2a 04/03/2013 11:52 am Michele Tartara

Fix error in the developer notes

The version numbers of two programs had been swapped.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

6e71fbf6 04/02/2013 03:18 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Add dependency on PyYAML in devnotes

This is required because of 0e79564a; otherwise, the pylint-qa target will
fail.

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

8d53117b 04/02/2013 11:51 am Michele Tartara

Update installation documentation

Some required dependencies were missing from the installation instructions.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

82437b28 03/28/2013 03:13 pm Michele Tartara

Add DCStatus data type for the data collectors

Also adds the DCStatusCode, part of DCStatus, and the addStatus
utility function for adding the "status" field to an already existing
JSValue.

The design document is updated to have the status codes sorted by increasing...

834dc290 03/28/2013 03:13 pm Michele Tartara

Export the dcVersionInformation for the Drbd collector

Also, update the JSON output (and the design document) so that it is not
in camelcase anymore. This is part of a bigger effort to remove camelcase
from the exposed JSON.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>...

debfca88 03/28/2013 03:11 pm Michele Tartara

Change format of the empty status message

Having 'null' instead of an empty string for an empty status message
increases the complexity of the code with no real improvement.

This patch modifies the monitoring agent design document solving this issue.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>...

da5f09ef 03/27/2013 12:46 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Refactor ispecs in ipolicy structures

Minimum and maximum instance specs are put together into a single element
of the instance policy. This is in preparation for introducing multiple
min/max specs.

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>...

a6321765 03/27/2013 12:45 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Amend partitioned design doc for multiple ispecs

There will be only one standard specification in instance policies.

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

681f4f7b 03/26/2013 07:10 pm Michele Tartara

More info on using the RAPI

Add some additional information about how to use/test the RAPI,
including how to specify authentication credentials.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Helga Velroyen <>

6414296b 03/21/2013 06:13 pm Helga Velroyen

Fixing some mistakes in design doc for space reporting

- Use entities as examples for storage types that are actually storage
types.
- Fix mixing up 'external_storage' and 'exclusive_storage'.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

94309823 03/21/2013 05:41 pm Helga Velroyen

Use 'storage type' consistently in design doc

To minimize the confusion between whether or not a storage type
is the same as a storage method, I updated the design doc to
use 'storage type' instead of 'storage method' consistently.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>...

33c730a2 03/21/2013 05:40 pm Helga Velroyen

Add constants for storage types to constants.py

This patch adds the currently known and used storage methods to the
constants.py file. Note that storage types are different from disk
templates. For example both disk templates, drbd and plain, use lvm
storage types....

6d2e1c12 03/15/2013 03:41 pm Michele Tartara

Add design document for the "reason trail"

This commit adds the design document for introducing "reason trails",
tracing the reason why opcodes are executed, step by step.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

74df4a99 03/12/2013 05:21 pm Helga Velroyen

Update design doc about free space reporting

This patch updates the design doc "Design correct reporting of storage
free space". The modifications were chosen to not conflict with any
future changes of Ganeti regarding storage pools.

Signed-off-by: Helga Velroyen <>...

0e8d8384 03/12/2013 03:43 pm Michele Tartara

Fix typo in the monitoring agent design doc

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

9b154e2b 03/05/2013 06:15 pm Iustin Pop

Merge branch 'devel-2.7'

  • devel-2.7:
    Update required pylint version
    Constants.hs.in: improve Haddock markup in the template
    convert-constants: generate better Haddock markup
    Expand Haddock to run over test files as well

Conflicts:
Makefile.am (curl changes and new hs directories)...

099e9213 03/05/2013 05:53 pm Iustin Pop

Update required pylint version

This should help a lot of users, since pylint 0.21.1 was quite an old
version…

The tree is "clean" w.r.t. the new pylint version.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <>

491d02ca 03/05/2013 01:56 pm Iustin Pop

Merge branch 'devel-2.7'

  • devel-2.7: (23 commits)
    Add export lists for files which didn't have them
    Fix Haskell compatibility tests with disabled file storage
    Fix QA with disabled file storage
    Fix convert-constants handling of booleans
    Fix handling of disabled (shared) file storage...
cd385f07 02/28/2013 06:40 pm Iustin Pop

Fix sphinx label namespace

Thanks Michael for pointing out the error!

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

a09b0f16 02/28/2013 05:48 pm Iustin Pop

Clarify use of move-instance with self-signed certificates

The document doesn't mention which certificates need to be passed as
ca-file, so let's try to clarify that.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

27d75ee0 02/26/2013 02:04 pm Michael Hanselmann

rapi.rst: Replace manual method lists with directive

Many resources, but not all, list their supported methods. With a new
reST directive, this list is now automatically generated and also lists
the required permissions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>...

1302ce18 02/22/2013 12:51 pm Michael Hanselmann

Improve RAPI documentation on users and options

- Document fields in “rapi/users” file in the order they appear
(username, password, options)
- Mention new “--require-authentication” option
- Clarify use of “write” on “GET” method

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>...

ea322c27 02/21/2013 11:05 am Michele Tartara

Describe format of the monitoring agent HTTP queries

The previous patch was incomplete when erroneously pushed.

This patch, originally intended as part of the previous one, fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

b166dcfc 02/21/2013 10:39 am Michele Tartara

Describe format of the monitoring agent HTTP queries

Update the monitoring agent design document adding the format of the HTTP
queries that will have to be used to query the monitoring agent.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

3234695b 02/20/2013 03:20 pm Michael Hanselmann

Merge branch 'devel-2.7'

  • devel-2.7:
    NEWS: Fix the fix in commit 82b6f9a
    NEWS: Fix release date for 2.7.0 beta1
    Minor fixes regarding nic.network change
    Fix issue 378
    NEWS: Mention multi-alloc and fix typo
    Add cfgupgrade for changing nic.network to uuid...