Feature pages are design documents that developers have created while collaborating on oVirt.
Most of them are outdated, but provide historical design context.
They are not user documentation and should not be treated as such.
Documentation is available here.
Most of them are outdated, but provide historical design context.
They are not user documentation and should not be treated as such.
Documentation is available here.
Autorecovery
Summary
This page describes the Autorecovery feature in ovirt engine.
Owner
- name: Laszlo Hornyak
Current status
- Last updated date: Wed July 20 2012
Detailed description
Behavior
- Autorecovery feature allows the backend to recover some of the objects automatically after a temporary failure. Only automatic recovery of hosts and storage domains are supported.
- The recovery logic does not check the reason why the object got into Not Operational/Inactive state
- AuditLog is limited to be issued once every 3 hours for unsuccessful recovery.
- Autorecovery can not be disabled
Internals
- The check happens in regular intervals (quartz scheduler)
- Needs a DAO extension to fetch only those objects that are in failed state and have auto-recovery on
- It calls the respective commands (ActivateHost, ActivateStorageDomain), and let the commands do what they do
- Database is extended with autorecovery information, default is true - as discussed on engine-devel list. As of now, this property is always true for each autorecoverable entity and can not be changed through engine.
- However, autorecovery can be enabled/disabled on the database level for each object of the above entity types and the engine tries to recover it periodically as long as the autorecovery is set to true, the engine does not give any GUI/API to do this.