Andy Kurth created VCL-942:
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Summary: Provide a way to indicate a reservation computer problem
without preventing user access
Key: VCL-942
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-942
Project: VCL
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: vcld (backend), web gui (frontend)
Reporter: Andy Kurth
It would be an improvement if there was a way to indicate that there is an
issue with a computer assigned to a reservation without preventing the user
from seeing the Connect button. A message displayed for the user would also be
helpful.
For example, a user initiates a reboot via the Reservations page. Prior to the
reboot, the management node can successfully log in via SSH to execute the
reboot command. However, after the reboot is initiated the computer never
responds to SSH again. The request/computer states should not get set to
_failed_ because the computer would be reclaimed. There's a chance the user
would be able to connect to the computer via SSH on the public IP or another
connection method.
A new computer state such as _inusealert_ could be added to indicate a computer
is still _inuse_ but something isn't right. All computers in this state would
appear on the dashboard.
A message displayed on the user's Reservations page would be useful. This could
possibly be stored in the computer.notes field.
With this feature, vcld could dynamically detect problems and provide some
information to both the user and administrators. One example could be during
the _inuse_ checks for Linux images, the code could check if the root partition
was mounted read-only, as is often the case when hypervisor loses its
connection to a VM's datastore.
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