Re: Re: Status of "management port" in 3.0?

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Jerry Gulla wrote:

>Thanks. I had to add that line to my config and then it opened up
>8000/8001.  I haven't been able to get gXenophilia to work with it,
>though.   I was really wondering what the "right" answer is for trying
>to talk to Xen remotely, however. I know that long term, there has
>been talk of a true "web services" way to do things, and in 2.x we had
>the http server ports open (and documented) by default, but it seems
>that currently there is no good indication of what to do.
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Just FYI, I'm pretty sure the HTTP transport is borked in 3.0 right 
now.  I wrote a wrapper for it a few weeks ago and put a less stress on 
it and it crapped out very quickly.  Since it's off by default, I 
haven't investigated it.

>Any idea when there will be a solid direction on what do to for the 3.0 release?
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A good approach for management applications is remote ssh.  xm list 
--long is your friend and will give you all of the information you 
need.  Plus, you get authentication/authorization for free.  If you use 
the -S option of SSH, you can multiplex many commands over a single 
connection efficiently (and only have to prompt for password once).  
Just catch me in #xen if you want more info about this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>Thanks,
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>Jerry
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>>On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:43:07PM -0400, Jerry Gulla wrote:
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>>>>I (finally) got Apache->mod_python->xend working so I can use the
>>>>(currently somewhat limited) web UI for Xen 3.0.  In Xen 2.0, there
>>>>was a process listening on  port 8000 that allowed an application to
>>>>query / change the configuration; I believe this is how gXenophilia
>>>>worked.
>>>>
>>>>It seems as if in 3.0, however, nobody is listening on this port any
>>>>more. I've modified /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp to specify a port (and
>>>>open up more than 'localhost'), but this doesn't seem to have an
>>>>effect.
>>>>
>>>>Is this going to be working some time in the near future for Xen 3.0,
>>>>or am I missing something (again :-)?
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>>>>
>>>You need to specify (xend-http-server true) in xend-config.sxp as well.  I
>>>don't know whether this is new.  I also don't know how well supported this
>>>interface is, and whether it will be in the future; looking at
>>>http://mymachine:8000/xend I see things that look almost like useful
>>>information, but that look a little bit broken too.
>>>
>>>Ewan.
>>>
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>>>
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