The end-user has an even more compelling reason to be able to query that information without resorting to querying from the host than an admin ever will.
Why would a cloud administrator need to see/care about userdata? I can see the end-user/instance admin caring, but not the root admin. --David On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Alena Prokharchyk <alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: > User can always access it through his Vm. The feature is more meant to > cover the case when Admin needs to get all the user data info for all vms > of a) network b) system > > On 1/13/14, 1:55 PM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > >>On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Alena Prokharchyk >><alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: >>> I would like to propose to introduce API (Admin only, 4.4) that returns >>>user data to the admin. Current UserData behavior: >>> >>> * userData is passed to the deployVm/updateVm call >>> * its stored in CS db and on the VR >>> * the only one way to retrieve the data, is to request it from the >>>user vm inside the network by sending http request to the Virtual Router. >>> >>> We've adopted this model from Amazon EC2 APIs. But along the way I've >>>noticed that some third party integrators needed to read UserData by >>>Admin to get the information about all vms in the system/network. To >>>solve the problem, people were using different kinds of workarounds - db >>>scripts to read userData from cloudstack DB, or writing CS API >>>extensions: https://github.com/jasonhancock/cloudstack-api-extension. >>> >>> So the API I'm proposing, will let you to retrieve User Data via Admin >>>API. It will be available to Root admin only. >>> >>> If anyone has any objection, or see the flaws in the proposal, please >>>signal. >>> >>> -Alena. >> >> >>Why make this root admin-only? Why shouldn't the user be able to see >>their own instances user-data? >> >>While the ability to see user-data is compelling; limiting it to >>root-admin only is much less desirable IMO. >> >>--David >
