On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Curtis C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Curtis
>>
>> Do you have an option to connect to the reservation via a console?
>> Does the computer have networking after reservation fail?
>
> Yes I can connect to the console, and the computer's network is no
> longer working, I'm guessing because dhcp fails due to something the
> VCL commands are doing.
>
> However, if I run a ipconfig /renew on the computer it can get it's
> dhcp address back and things continue on as usual. If I don't run a
> renew command the computer does not get an IP again on it's own. The
> computers in this case, with an openstack backend, get their IP from
> dhcp, which I believe have a one minute lease time. (I'm going to
> increase that this morning as a workaround.)

FYI, the workaround of  increasing openstack's dhcp lease time to 8
hours is working. By default it's 120 seconds. Something vcl is doing
kills the initial dhcp address.

Thanks,
Curtis.


>
> Thanks,
> Curtis.
>
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 9:33 , Aaron Peeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not very good at windows 7/2008 kms activation process. But could
>>> it be related to this. I see in your log one of the last warnings is a
>>> message about not being able to activate. Is somehow in the process
>>> the networking getting disabled or diminished?
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Curtis C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Still trying to troubleshoot this issue.
>>>>
>>>> For some reason the networking stops on my windows 7 and server 2008
>>>> instances just before we hit "waiting for user acknowledgement."
>>>>
>>>> Here's another log file:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=91a4GnhQ
>>>>
>>>> Though I've been doing some "print" debugging so there might be a few
>>>> unusual things in that log file.
>>>>
>>>> Eventually I'll find it, but sure would be nice to do so sooner than
>>>> later, before I go blind from eye strain. :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Curtis.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Curtis C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> So it turns out that the OpenStack bug probably wasn't affecting this 
>>>>> issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is another log of a failed reservation:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=K6RPMK8A
>>>>>
>>>>> These are the last SSH commands that are executed on the instance:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012-10-22 
>>>>> 15:37:12|1739|56:56|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(4936)|executing
>>>>> SSH command on vm1:
>>>>> |1739|56:56|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key  -o
>>>>> StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o
>>>>> ConnectionAttempts=1 -o ConnectTimeout=3 -l root -p 22 -x vm1
>>>>> 'C:/Windows/Sysnative/net.exe user "admin"' 2>&1
>>>>> 2012-10-22 15:37:13|1739|56:56|new|Windows.pm:user_exists(1672)|user
>>>>> admin does not exist on vm1
>>>>> 2012-10-22 15:37:13|1739|56:56|new|Windows.pm:create_user(1744)|attempting
>>>>> to add user admin to vm1 (XWekEk)
>>>>> 2012-10-22 15:37:13|1739|56:56|new|Windows.pm:create_user(1755)|user
>>>>> will be added to the Administrators group
>>>>> 2012-10-22 
>>>>> 15:37:13|1739|56:56|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(4936)|executing
>>>>> SSH command on vm1:
>>>>> |1739|56:56|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key  -o
>>>>> StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o
>>>>> ConnectionAttempts=1 -o ConnectTimeout=3 -l root -p 22 -x vm1
>>>>> 'C:/Windows/Sysnative/net.exe user "admin" "XWekEk" /ADD
>>>>> /EXPIRES:NEVER /COMMENT:"Account created by VCL" &&
>>>>> C:/Windows/Sysnative/net.exe localgroup "Remote Desktop Users" "admin"
>>>>> /ADD && C:/Windows/Sysnative/net.exe localgroup "Administrators"
>>>>> "admin" /ADD' 2>&1
>>>>>
>>>>> ==
>>>>>
>>>>> At which point the networking fails on the instance and no further SSH
>>>>> commands can run.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas around that? Perhaps something missing from the "capture" 
>>>>> process?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Curtis.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Curtis C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Aaron Peeler <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Curtis,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The process flow is not documented, but yes when a user hits the
>>>>>>> connect button the OS firewall is modified. But looking at your log
>>>>>>> output, it's not getting to that step.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, I think you are right. I think it was just coincidence that the
>>>>>> networking failed when I clicked connect. I did a few more tests and
>>>>>> waited longer and the networking for the instance is failing. I think
>>>>>> I've hit a known OpenStack bug that is fixed in updates, so I will try
>>>>>> that out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>>> Curtis.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not able to ssh into the vm1 to update anything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can to tell if anything is happening to vm1 between the new state and
>>>>>>> the reserved state?
>>>>>>> Like the vm1 gets turned off or the vm gets a new IP from openstack
>>>>>>> and is does not resolve to vm1 anymore?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Curtis C. <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a Windows server 2008 instance/slot/computer which is up until
>>>>>>>> the user connects, then the networking on the instance stops, I assume
>>>>>>>> because hitting the connect button sets off some kind of networking
>>>>>>>> process on the instance, such as adding firewall rules. In this case
>>>>>>>> the instances get their IP via DHCP because VCL is being backended by
>>>>>>>> OpenStack.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is that connection/networking process documented anywhere?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As I may be totally wrong, kinda new to VCL :), about what is going
>>>>>>>> on, here are the logs for one of the reservations:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=L5G3qCmx
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Curtis.
>>>>>>>>
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