Girish, cloudstack shows router status as 'running' before the router booting completed. The router is accessible when the cloud-early-config starts the sshd in booting.
+1 on santosh suggestion. Thanks, Jayapal On 30-Sep-2013, at 11:25 AM, Santhosh Edukulla <santhosh.eduku...@citrix.com> wrote: > Girish, > > 1. Using timeout will make it to wait for that many units always and again it > may not be fool proof, we may succeed to find ssh daemon on remote machine is > up and running and with this, we again run it few more times to check again > if it is not running, so its not much predictable. > > Instead of waiting for specified time always. > > a) poll check to see if ping to ip is working and then verify ssh port is > open for connections on the target, if yes, we are good to go. This way, we > are not waiting for specific time always. > b) There is a telnet lib of which you can use either read_until or expect > calls with specific max timeout ( worst ) with strings like "connected" etc > to check ssh port is available for connections, If we are getting the desired > string in the output, then we are ok, or otherwise you may take a call. This > way, we wait for max time only during worst cases. Check the link below link > for specific examples: > > http://docs.python.org/2/library/telnetlib.html > > Regards, > Santhosh > ________________________________________ > From: Girish Shilamkar [gir...@clogeny.com] > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 1:38 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Virtual Router reachability > > Hello, > > Egress rules tests rely on accessing virtual router VR after creating a > network. I have often seen that VR is not immediately accessible. > A ssh to VR fails, I think it takes a while for the network to come up and VR > can be ssh'd. This happens even though the VR is in "Running" > state. > So I added a delay before trying to ssh VR. I was wondering what is the right > amount of delay here. I did not find a param in global settings > which can be used as wait time. > > Please advise. > > Regards, > Girish
