The serial proxy will not automatically start. It's intended to be started as a service, just the like API, VNC proxy, or SPICE proxy.
Best Regards, Solly Ross ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Markus Zoeller" <mzoel...@de.ibm.com> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:45:08 AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] How to connect to a serial port of an > instance via websocket? > > The cause of this is that the serialproxy was not started. So nobody > was listening to the port 6083. Validate with: > $ netstat -nat | grep :608 > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6081 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 192.168.122.41:60858 192.168.122.41:5672 ESTABLISHED > tcp 0 0 192.168.122.41:60859 192.168.122.41:5672 ESTABLISHED > tcp6 0 0 192.168.122.41:5672 192.168.122.41:60858 ESTABLISHED > tcp6 0 0 192.168.122.41:5672 192.168.122.41:60859 ESTABLISHED > > After finding [1] all I had to do was to start this proxy manually with: > $ nova-serialproxy > > INFO nova.console.websocketproxy [-] WebSocket server settings: > INFO nova.console.websocketproxy [-] - Listen on 0.0.0.0:6083 > INFO nova.console.websocketproxy [-] - Flash security policy server > INFO nova.console.websocketproxy [-] - No SSL/TLS support > (no cert file) > INFO nova.console.websocketproxy [-] - proxying from 0.0.0.0:6083 > to None:None > > After executing this command, the `netstat` command from above shows a > listener for port 6083: > $ netstat -nat | grep :608 > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6081 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6083 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 192.168.122.41:60858 192.168.122.41:5672 ESTABLISHED > tcp 0 0 192.168.122.41:60859 192.168.122.41:5672 ESTABLISHED > tcp6 0 0 192.168.122.41:5672 192.168.122.41:60858 ESTABLISHED > tcp6 0 0 192.168.122.41:5672 192.168.122.41:60859 ESTABLISHED > > By using Sahids websocketclient and the URI I got from the command > `nova get-serial-console instance1` the connection gets established and > one will see the login screen (e.g. from cirros). > > I was expecting the nova-serialproxy to start automatically when the > section [serial_console] has the entry `enabled=True`. Is this a bug or > do I have a wrong assumption here? > > Thanks again Sahid for your help! Thanks to Solly too, for offering JS > help! > > [1] OpenStack Nova Developer Docs; "Websocket serial Proxy for OpenStack > Nova serial ports." ; > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/man/nova-serialproxy.html > > > > Markus Zoeller/Germany/IBM wrote on 10/30/2014 11:29:22 AM: > > > From: Markus Zoeller/Germany/IBM > > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > > Date: 10/30/2014 11:29 AM > > Subject: [nova] How to connect to a serial port of an instance via > websocket? > > > > On Wed Oct 29 09:42:52 UTC 2014, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui wrote: > > > > > > The aim of the feature is exposing an interactive web-based serial > > > consoles through a websocket proxy. The API returns an URL with a > > > valid token that should be used with a websocket client to read/write > > > on the stream. > > > > > > Considering the service nova-serialproxy is running and well > > > configured you can use this simple test purpose client to connect > > > yourself on the URL returned by the API: > > > > > > https://gist.github.com/sahid/894c31f306bebacb2207 > > > > > > The general idea behind this service is for example to help debugging > > > VMs when something was wrong with the network configuration. > > > > Hi Sahid, > > > > thanks for your great example! When I execute it I get the error > > socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused > > How do I debug this? Did I miss a configuration? > > > > ./lazyclient.py > ws://127.0.0.1:6083/?token=39262891-2588-4872-994b-3be9b7333fd7 > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "./lazyclient.py", line 27, in <module> > > ws.connect() > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ws4py/client/ > > __init__.py", line 209, in connect > > self.sock.connect(self.bind_addr) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth > > return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) > > socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev