Hi Norvin, I think there is a problem here when number of max concurrent image use and number of reserved computers in BlockAllocation is the same. I.e. in your case if you block allocated 6 images, and the image has max concurrent use of 6 then block allocation won't work.
Try changing number of block allocated computers to 5 for this image. This way 5 first users will connect right away and 6th user will wait for image to load. This way you don't go over limit of 6 concurrent for the image. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov VCL Sys Eng, Engineering & Architectural Support, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 | Fax: (703) 993-3404 ________________________________________ From: Basilio, Norvin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 1:51 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Block Reservation Issues Josh, I have finally gotten to the point that the user was actually describing. The block reservation is created and here is the scenario our user is fighting. This image has a max concurrent of 6. I've created a block reservation with the following: Environment: SPSS 21/Amos21 Owner: nbasilio@odu User Group: shib-ITSCRIM815 Number of Seats: 6 Times: 1400 - 1500 Thursdays I am a member of the user group that was specified. When I go to new reservations to create a reservation inside of the blocked time window and select the button to create the reservation I receive the following message. "You have requested an environment that is limited in the number of concurrent reservations that can be made. No further reservations for the environment can be made for the time you have selected. Please select another time to use the environment." Norvin [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Basilio, Norvin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Block Reservation Issues 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)|z >> ero rows were returned from database select 2014-03-06 >> 12:08:03|12905|75274:75274|reload|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(5793)|ze >> ro 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. 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