On Monday 21 January 2013 05:47 PM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
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From: "Shireesh Anjal" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 2:08:14 PM
Subject: [Engine-devel] RFE: Actions on tasks (jobs)
Hi,
We plan to introduce support for gluster tasks in oVirt, using the
current Jobs/steps framework. Which means, any gluster async task
started on a cluster will be shown as a Job in the "Tasks" tab. While
this helps in listing and monitoring the status of all gluster tasks,
we
have a requirement to support a set of actions on such tasks. One
should
be able to select a task, and then, if supported for that task,
perform
one or more of the following actions on it:
- pause
- resume
- abort
- commit
I think this can probably be achieved by introducing a generic
mechanism
for performing actions on task, allowing each type of task to define
what actions are allowed on it in it's current state.
Requesting opinions/suggestions on possible ways to achieve this
requirement.
Several points -
1. By performing actions - you probably mean the entry point to engine will be
BllCommand? StopTaskCommand for example?
If so, we need to think about the permission of the command. who can stop a for
example? What is its role?
I see that Job extends BusinessEntity<Guid>, and hence should be
possible to assign permissions on it, just like any other entity? Though
I think this doesn't fit directly in the current UI, as jobs is not a
main tab. In case of gluster, I would add this permission to the
'GlusterAdmin' role.
2. You mentioned task type - does this mean extending the AsyncTaskType enum?
Are you going to have your own Tasks enum?
I'm not sure about AsyncTaskType, as I believe it is related to the vdsm
async tasks and AsyncTaskManager, and I don't think we'll be going there.
In our case, the command being executed in the job itself could be
synonymous to the task type. What I mean by task type specific actions
is, not all actions are applicable on all types of tasks. e.g. "commit"
is applicable only to a "replace brick" task, and not to "rebalance
volume" task, whereas "abort" is applicable to both. So the
corresponding command should dictate what action can be performed on the
task.
Thanks,
Shireesh
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