Josh, Thanks for that information. We do not have any additional management nodes any more. Is there a specific minimum amount of time in the future I should be creating a block reservation for. I created a new one that was maybe 45 minutes ahead of time and so far that one appears to operate normally. The test ones i was trying earlier were no more than 15min in the future. Could that have caused some additional items to troubleshoot.
Norvin [email protected] On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Norvin, > > The page displayed after clicking “Next Start Time” has to build its data > from > multiple tables. The number listed for "failed" basically comes from the > absence of data. To put it another way, if computers were never allocated > for > the allocation, it will list the total number for the allocation as failed. > It doesn't necessarily mean it attempted to load them but failed to. It may > mean nothing ever processed the allocation. > > If you are not seeing any lines in vcld.log with "blockrequest.pm" in them, > then they are never getting picked up for processing on that management node. > > Do you have any other management nodes set up? When a Block Allocation is > created, the frontend assigns a management node to handle processing it. If > you have another management node that doesn't have the XML RPC API set up > correctly, that could be the problem. > > Josh > > On Thursday, March 06, 2014 5:13:50 PM Basilio, Norvin wrote: >> So the test you mentioned from vcld -setup works with out any issue. The I >> grep the log and the here are a couple lines from the log: >> >> 2014-03-06 >> 12:07:59|12867|75207:75207|timeout|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(5793)|zero >> rows were returned from database select 2014-03-06 >> 12:08:03|12905|75274:75274|reload|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(5793)|zero >> rows were returned from database select >> >> The last couple of hours have been like that and I have been creating new >> blocks in order to test the functionality. After submitting the new block >> allocation it immediately goes to a failed state. >> >> Norvin >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Josh Thompson >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> - gpg control packet >> Norvin, >> >> vcld picks up Block Allocations up to 6 hours before the start time of the >> allocation to process it (assign nodes and create reload reservations for >> those nodes). So, you should see entries in your vcld.log file showing that >> it picked up the allocation to process it. Run >> >> grep blockrequest /var/log/vcld.log >> >> on your management node to see entries about it processing Block >> Allocations. If everything goes correctly, you should see a line like: >> >> 2014-03-06 03:00:58|30756|530||blockrequest|blockrequest.pm:process|208| >> success blockTimes id 11695 processed and allocated 8 nodes >> >> |30756|530||blockrequest|blockrequest.pm:process|208| status= success >> >> Also, there is a way to test that things are configured correctly for vcld >> to be able to process them. vcld actually connects to the web frontend via >> the XML RPC API to process Block Allocations. To test that things are >> configured correctly, run >> >> /usr/local/vcl/bin/vcld -setup >> >> Then, choose option 1 (VCL Base Module), then option 3 (Test RPC-XML Access) >> >> Josh >> >> On Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:08:09 PM Basilio, Norvin wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I’m having a problem with block request in our vcl 2.3 environment. This was >> previously working but stopped at some point. I’m a little lost as to where >> to start troubleshooting this issue as its not showing me a failure in the >> vcld.log file. Its basically not able to correctly reserve the computers. >> Thus when the time comes to use the reservation the users are not allowed >> to create a reservation for the image as they are all reserved for the >> Block which was not correctly processed. When i look at the Block >> Allocation page I see “Next Start Time” in red. When I click the red link I >> see that all the machines are failed. Can anyone help me with a starting >> point on troubleshooting this issue. >> >> Norvin Basilio >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> -- >> ------------------------------- >> Josh Thompson >> VCL Developer >> North Carolina State University >> >> my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu<http://pgp.mit.edu> >> >> All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which >> are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public >> Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > - -- > - ------------------------------- > Josh Thompson > VCL Developer > North Carolina State University > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlMYuz0ACgkQV/LQcNdtPQNcxgCfaUSH41lNihqOEkoFoiNwh1Jb > XNYAn0fxz2I30c9NGjRHRsrYW9BR5GVa > =kZ6O > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
