Hi Vanson,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Vanson Lim <v...@cisco.com> wrote: > Apache Stratos developers, > > Is there a way to adjust the timeout value for a cartridge to become > active in apache stratos 4.0.0? > > I've observed that Stratos Manager managing Openstack based VMs, will > restart the VM 15 minutes after launching it, if it does not hear from the > cartridge agent. > > For our cartridges, we are starting with a blank VM (ie ubuntu/redhat > cloud image), package installation is happening as a part of the startup > process, and cartridge agent start is delayed until after package/patch > installation/configuration completes. > > I am noticing that as the number of packages/patches to be applied > increases and when the system gets busy I am getting very close to the > timeout, sometimes exceeding it. > > Is there a better approach for this? Ideally, a tunable timeout per > subscription seems like the best approach. I think timeout per cartridge type is a better control level. This can be recorded in a Jira as a an improvement. We experimented with driving the package installation off the > instance-started.sh extension but this never worked well as we had some > cases were we needed to reboot the server after package installation, and > stratos doesn't handle well the case were the cartridge agent goes silent > for a few minutes as the VM is rebooting. > > Another approach considered was to pre-bake some of the functionality into > the base cartridges to shorten the "installation" time, but this > complicates the management of the VM so we would like to avoid this. Do you mean management of Image? What we can do is install common software that are required and keep. Thanks. > > > -Vanson > > -- -- Lahiru Sandaruwan Committer and PMC member, Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware email: lahi...@wso2.com cell: (+94) 773 325 954 blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/lahirus linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146
