On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:40:45 +0000
Dean Arnold <dean.arn...@arm.com> wrote:

> In our LAVA setup we currently have our control server and then we
> have 4 remote workers.  On these workers we have different device
> types distributed evenly to prevent complete loss of a particular
> type if one of our workers fails.
> 
> On each worker we have our per device configuration specified
> here: /srv/lava/instances/<instance>/etc/lava-dispatcher/devices And
> our device-type configuration
> here: /srv/lava/instances/<instance>/etc/lava-dispatcher/device-types
> 
> In the device-types config files we are overriding the defaults with
> ARM specific settings such as, the license_file in the case of fast
> models, or the partitions in the case of vexpress-tc2.  The settings
> for a particular device-type are the same for the instances running
> on all workers, therefore it means we have the same
> <device-type>.conf on multiple machines.  It would be good if I could
> define the ARM specific settings in one place rather than for each
> dispatcher.

In the current lab, the admins use tools like salt to deploy device
configuration files which ensure the same values are distributed across
multiple machines.

> What I was wondering was whether or not the remote workers inherited
> lava-dispatcher device type configs from the master or whether each
> workers dispatcher was stand alone?  If I placed the device-type
> config files specific to our setup
> under /srv/lava/instances/<instance>/etc/lava-dispatcher/device-types
> on our control server, would all of the remote workers pull these
> settings in?

No. What LAVA is currently doing is using salt to push the file from
"control" to each remote worker.

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Neil Williams
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