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d59fea3d 01/20/2011 11:58 am René Nussbaumer

Adding a basic oob helper as an example

This is just a plain stupid and simple out-of-band helper without
anything fancy. It uses plain ssh to power off / power cycle the
machine, does not support power on. It support power status using fping
to check if the host replies....

5d9e167a 12/10/2010 05:13 pm Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho

Script to gracefully power off KVM instances

When a node is running KVM instances and that node is rebooted or
shutdown, the gnt-noded daemon is finished and leaves the KVM instances
running. Latter on in the shutdown process, all remaining processes
receive SIGTERM as usual, meaning that the KVM instances are all...

98028e5d 10/29/2010 05:48 pm Michael Hanselmann

Make *.in non-executable

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

85a87e21 06/23/2010 12:38 pm Guido Trotter

Add repetition count to the TestDelay opcode

If the repetition count is not passed or is passed as 0 we sleep exactly
one time, otherwise we sleep "repeat" times and log in between.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

89c04c2d 06/14/2010 07:41 pm Guido Trotter

Add example gnt-debug submit-job json files

These files are being used to test the job queue performance with
various changes and conditions. Adding them here for posterity.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

5d8acbdd 03/12/2010 05:44 pm Michael Hanselmann

ganeti.initd: Move all daemon names from init script to daemon-util

The list of daemon names will be used in daemon-util, too.

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

10c5c1c3 03/12/2010 05:44 pm Michael Hanselmann

ganeti.initd: Move code checking daemon exit code to daemon-util

This is again for re-using code.

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

d2baa21d 03/12/2010 05:44 pm Michael Hanselmann

ganeti.initd: Move code checking config to daemon-util

This allows for more code re-use. daemon-util will also be used to start
all daemons.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

752a8ca8 01/12/2010 12:45 pm Michael Hanselmann

Provide example default files and install one for development

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

bd14a6ac 11/06/2009 01:38 pm Iustin Pop

Fix the init script

The rewrite after the introduction of the daemon-util script has a
copy-paste error.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

f154a7a3 11/05/2009 05:36 pm Michael Hanselmann

Add new “daemon-util” script to start/stop Ganeti daemons

Until now, Ganeti started and stopped its own daemons using custom functions.
To start, the daemon was just executed and then sent the appropriate signals to
stop it again. Init scripts would have to pay attention to the PID file and...

679008e7 11/03/2009 03:20 pm Iustin Pop

Add an example script for backing up the config

This requires git and lockfile-progs, and only backs up config.data (see
the comments why).

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

e58b56ad 10/23/2009 04:10 pm Guido Trotter

init script: allow singling out confd as well

Currently we can start/stop the various subdaemons, but not confd.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Olivier Tharan <>

691dfed9 10/07/2009 01:16 pm Guido Trotter

ethers hook: allow more than one daemon pidfile

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

d1e95dde 09/02/2009 02:05 pm Luca Bigliardi

Example IPsec hook

This hook is a simple example which automatically configures a basic IPsec link
among all the nodes of a cluster.

Signed-off-by: Luca Bigliardi <>

5c566e17 08/28/2009 06:35 pm Michael Hanselmann

Merge branch 'next' into branch-2.1

  • next:
    Add script to clean archived jobs after 21 days
    rapi: export more static node information
    Pass the correct signal to handlers
    cli: Use ToStdout/ToStderr instead of print
    Fix small typo in gnt-node
    Simplify handling of boolean args in rapi...
fc3fd894 08/28/2009 05:43 pm Michael Hanselmann

Add script to clean archived jobs after 21 days

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

4f3d5b76 08/24/2009 04:53 pm Michael Hanselmann

Use script to generate bash completion

Completion for tools/burnin is not yet implemented. It needs to be
converted to definition-based options handling first.

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

82cd7760 08/13/2009 05:55 pm Iustin Pop

Improve the example startup script

Currently, the supplised script has two issues:
- it doesn't use start-stop-daemon --start correctly, leading to
messages like "ganeti.errors.GenericError:
/var/run/ganeti/ganeti-rapi.pid contains a live process" in the logs...

a02b4427 08/13/2009 05:55 pm Iustin Pop

Fix insserv dependencies

(import of a Debian patch)

This patch removes xend from the list of dependencies.

Ganeti doesn't need xend running to startup, it will only need it later
(and only if xen is used as virtualisation technology). It also removes
'Xen' from the description in the init script....

b142ef15 08/13/2009 02:41 pm Iustin Pop

Merge commit 'origin/next' into branch-2.1

  • commit 'origin/next': (28 commits)
    Fix a typo in InitCluster
    Ignore results from drained nodes in iallocator
    Ship the ethers hook
    Ethers hook, compatibility with old lockfile
    Remove a few unused imports from noded/masterd...
87a5035c 08/10/2009 07:41 pm Luca Bigliardi

Ethers hook, compatibility with old lockfile

Remove "-l" option since some ancient systems ship a version of lockfile-progs
not supporting it.

Signed-off-by: Luca Bigliardi <>

9164cec9 08/10/2009 06:12 pm Guido Trotter

init script: handle ganeti-confd as well

Adding ganeti-confd to the example init script. The daemon itself will
only start on master candidates, but the init script can just try to
start it on all nodes.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

8486ffc0 08/07/2009 02:22 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'master' into next

  • master:
    Update NEWS and version for 2.0.3 release
    devel/upload: revert rsync -p
    export: add meaningful exit code
    Fix detecting of errors in export
    Implement gnt-cluster check-disk-sizes
    rpc: add rpc call for getting disk size...
e24999ab 08/06/2009 11:12 am Guido Trotter

example ethers hook: use lockfile-progs

Rather than writing our own locking routing, use the one implemented by
the lockfile-create program.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

d98b37a1 08/05/2009 09:05 pm Luca Bigliardi

ethers hook lock: use logger not echo

Overwrite debugging 'echo's

Signed-off-by: Luca Bigliardi <>
Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

1db0b7cf 08/05/2009 08:52 pm Luca Bigliardi

ethers hook: reduce the probability of data loss

The hook was exiting immediately if lock was not acquired, entering a timed
loop to have more chances when acquiring the lock.

Signed-off-by: Luca Bigliardi <>
Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

60975797 08/04/2009 05:36 pm Iustin Pop

Implement gnt-cluster check-disk-sizes

This patch adds a new opcode and lu for checking disk sizes. Currently
it does only top-level disk verification, and also doesn't check
primary/secondary node size mismatches (these two are added as TODOs in
the Exec() function of the LU)....

93db3d8f 07/22/2009 04:13 pm Guido Trotter

Add an example "ethers" hook

This hook can be used to update /etc/ethers with instance's mac
addresses. A dhcp server on the nodes can then serve to the instances
their correct address. (This has been tested with dnsmasq's dhcp
implementation)

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>

7f5e61b4 07/17/2009 06:23 pm Michael Hanselmann

ganeti.initd: Pass $*_ARGS to programs when restarting them

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

2e159315 05/06/2009 10:50 am Guido Trotter

Pass optional arguments to the daemons

These can be set in the defaults file, default to no arguments being
passed, and make it easy for local installation to customize the way the
ganeti daemons are called.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

a533e975 05/06/2009 10:49 am Guido Trotter

ganeti.initd: include defaults file, if present

In the example init script we'll execute an optional defaults file to
make it easier to add local customizations to the ganeti startup.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin <>

84d6ea9b 05/06/2009 10:46 am Guido Trotter

Fix ;; indentation in the main initd loop

Currently two of the ;; ending the case bodies are not indented with
anything. Reindent all of them to the body of the loop, as it's done
somewhere else in the init script.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

949bdabe 04/15/2009 02:11 pm Iustin Pop

A bunch of doc and other small fixes

This patch adds a couple of both externally and internally reported
issues:
- missing SGML tags (Issue 54), report and patch by superdupont
- wrong variable used in the init.d script, report and patch by
Karsten Keil <>...

75615bd3 03/04/2009 12:13 pm Iustin Pop

Fix bash completion for cluster copyfile/command

“copyfile” takes a file argument, so we enable file-completion for it.
“gnt-cluster command” takes a command, so we enable command completion.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

b806661b 03/02/2009 11:51 am Iustin Pop

A doc update and a small indentation fix

This adds a small paragraph about the “master” role of a node, and fixes
a wrong indentation in the bash completion file.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

e2a2a2eb 02/26/2009 06:11 pm Iustin Pop

Add bash-completion rules

This is a not-complete bash completion file for ganeti commands (gnt-*)
and the burnin tool. It is based on previous work by Minghua Ye
<> for Ganeti 1.1, which wasn't used because the
lack of ssconf keys (which allow easy inspection by the shell of the...

5c562aa4 02/20/2009 12:45 pm Guido Trotter

dumb-allocator: avoid allocating on drained nodes

This was forgotten when drained nodes were added.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

7d26425f 02/10/2009 04:46 pm Iustin Pop

dumb allocator: do not use drained nodes

This patch changes the dumb allocator not to use drained nodes (similar
to offline nodes).

Reviewed-by: imsnah

e10a3aea 02/05/2009 04:08 pm Iustin Pop

Small improvement to the init.d example file

The start_action function is changed so that it can be called with
arguments - this could be used to parse a defaults file, etc.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

9939547b 01/23/2009 03:33 pm Iustin Pop

Fix batcher for 2.0-style disks and nics

This patch fixes the gnt-instance batch-create command, and in doing so
also slightly changes two other functions:
- we change utils.ParseUnit so that it accepts integer values also
(both ParseUnit(5) and ParseUnit("5") return the same value)...

1325da74 01/23/2009 02:36 pm Iustin Pop

Make iallocator work with offline nodes

This patch changes the iallocator framework to work with and properly
export to plugins offline nodes. It does this by only exporting the
static configuration data for those nodes, and not attempting to parse
the runtime data....

ec17d09c 11/21/2008 12:46 pm Michael Hanselmann

Get rid of node daemon password

With the new SSL client certificate stuff it's no longer needed.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

b1b6ea87 07/30/2008 11:43 am Iustin Pop

Rework master startup/shutdown/failover

This (big) patch reworks the master startup/shutdown and the fixes the
master failover.

What does the patch do?

For master start/stop:
- remove the old ganeti-master script and its associated man page
- moves the ip start/stop directly into the backend.(Start|Stop)Master...

5947d6ec 07/23/2008 05:24 pm Guido Trotter

Use pidfiles in example init script

Rather than searching for the ganeti daemons by name we'll use the
pidfile they create to stop them. This change also adds the --oknodo
option to start-stop-daemon when stopping ganeti (which means it won't
give an error if it wasn't started)....

e8230860 06/19/2008 03:56 pm Michael Hanselmann

Use a single Makefile.am instead of many

This change allows us to use cleaner dependencies between
directories. The build system is basically rewritten in large parts
and may contain bugs.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

b3a447ef 06/06/2008 12:28 pm Michael Hanselmann

Forward-port: Small codestyle fixes for dumb-allocator

Reviewed-by: iustinp

447b2066 05/24/2008 11:59 am Guido Trotter

Distribute dumb-allocator in examples

When creating the ganeti tarball the dumb allocator was left out.
Shipping it alongside the other examples.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

2a139bb0 04/23/2008 03:05 pm Iustin Pop

Generalize the replace_secondary mode in iallocator

Currently the replace_secondary mode is too restrictive. This patch
changes this to a general 'relocate' mode where the node(s) to be
changed are specified via a new key in the request dict ('nodes') so...

eb0994e7 04/23/2008 02:04 pm Iustin Pop

Implement replace_secondary in the dumb allocator

This patch allows the dumb allocator to perform the replace secondary
request type. This is done simply by not allowing the current instances
nodes as a valid selection, and using the existing instance data instead...

27579978 04/23/2008 02:03 pm Iustin Pop

Send required_nodes field to the iallocator scripts

This patch adds the 'required_nodes' field in the request dict for the
iallocator.

This means that the handmade-checks in the create instance can be
simplified, and that the dumb allocator can be made simple. Therefore...

538475ca 04/16/2008 04:57 pm Iustin Pop

IAllocator part 3: LUCreateInstance changes

This (final) patch allows the instance's nodes to be selected
automatically based on the passed allocator algorithm.

The patch changes the pnode opcode parameter from required to optional,
now either the pnode or the iallocator must be passed....

298fe380 04/16/2008 04:56 pm Iustin Pop

Implement 'out' direction on allocator tests

This patch adds the paths for searching for instance allocators and
makes the LUTestAllocator code run the allocator and return the results
if the direction specified is 'out'. 'out' means that the opcode will...

40dacb4d 04/11/2008 05:54 pm Iustin Pop

Make the init script start the master daemon too

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

3cdef069 04/10/2008 03:59 pm Iustin Pop

Fix example scripts build dependencies

Currently, the example scripts (the init.d and the cron script) do not
depend on the Makefile, so if configure is rerun with different
parameters these scripts are not rebuild.

The patch adds Makefile as a dependency so changes to installation paths...

0214b0c0 03/19/2008 12:17 pm Iustin Pop

Make ganeti-noded create BDEV_CACHE_DIR automatically

Currently in order to deal with tmpfs /var/run, we create the
BDEV_CACHE_DIR in the init script. However, that does not cover all the
cases, and it's not a proper place to deal with it: for example, dealing...

0d349b3a 02/23/2008 12:48 pm Guido Trotter

Improve ganeti example cron file

The cron file in ganeti's example directory is now static, and executes
ganeti-watcher in /usr/local/sbin no matter where it's really installed. With
this patch we generate it at build time substituting the right value of...

e71d6323 01/20/2008 03:55 pm Iustin Pop

Fix the init.d script

The script (which is geared towards Debian) is actually not fully
compliant, as lintian generates a warning on it - the S runlevel is not
a valid one in the "Stop" stanza. This patch removes "S" from the stop
list.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

b81ef751 11/22/2007 03:51 pm Iustin Pop

Create /var/run/ganeti before noded startup

The /var/run directory can be a tmpfs mount, so even if we make it at
install time (or include it in the package) it can go away. Therefore,
test for its existence and create it in the startup script.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

084bf7b2 11/09/2007 03:03 pm Michael Hanselmann

Fix usage of wrong variable in doc/examples/Makefile.am.

This makes “make distcheck” work again.

Reviewed-by: schreiberal

86208a02 10/09/2007 04:01 pm Michael Hanselmann

Do not install init script in PREFIX/bin.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

24d48647 09/25/2007 05:22 pm Guido Trotter

Integrate Leonardo's LSB init script patch

Reviewed-By: imsnah

8e587e52 09/11/2007 11:45 am Michael Hanselmann

- Don't build .tar.bz2, we only distribute .tar.gz anyway.
- Clean generated files on “make maintainer-clean”.
- Build _autoconf.py and ganeti.initd on “make all”.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

c1671c0e 09/04/2007 06:27 pm Michael Hanselmann

Use configure's paths in the init script example.

Reviewed-by: schreiberal

7d4ee540 09/03/2007 04:28 pm Michael Hanselmann

- Add Makefile in doc/examples/

04daec5d 09/03/2007 04:23 pm Michael Hanselmann

- Rename docs/ to doc/
- Add Makefile in doc/examples/

Reviewed-by: schreiberal