[jira] [Commented] (VCL-502) allow aspects of automatic user groups to be managed through UI
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-502?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13185585#comment-13185585 ] Josh Thompson commented on VCL-502: --- Allow group membership to be viewed even though it cannot be edited. allow aspects of automatic user groups to be managed through UI --- Key: VCL-502 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-502 Project: VCL Issue Type: Improvement Components: web gui (frontend) Reporter: Josh Thompson Assignee: Josh Thompson Fix For: 2.3 Make automated user groups show up on Manage Groups page and allow everything but membership to be modified. Allow group to be deleted but with a warning that it will be recreated if someone that is a member of the group logs in through ldap or shib. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Commented] (VCL-168) Windows Media Player shortcut gets added to desktop for all users
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-168?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13185617#comment-13185617 ] Mike Haudenschild commented on VCL-168: --- This is a function of SysPrep (at least for WinXP). It's definitely annoying. A workaround could be adding a script that deletes the desktop shortcut if it didn't exist in the original default user profile. Windows Media Player shortcut gets added to desktop for all users - Key: VCL-168 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-168 Project: VCL Issue Type: Improvement Components: vcld (backend) Affects Versions: 2.0 Reporter: Andy Kurth Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.3 A shortcut to Windows Media Player gets added to all users' desktop even after configuring the default user profile to not display it. I'm not sure when the shortcut gets added, but it is not present just before an image is captured. This is particularly annoying because the default user profile doesn't appear as you would expect after going through an image capture. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
Re: vcld test script
I like the idea. Other tests which would be useful: -check VM host license expiration dates -check if the network names defined in the VM profile are available on the VM hosts -check amount of space available for VM host datastores, management node repository, and management node volume where vcld.log is being written -make sure required attributes are defined for VMs such as MAC addresses if they are not auto-generated -check if time is sychronized on VM hosts, management node, and the database server -send a test sysadmin email message The architecture of 'vcld -setup' hasn't been discussed on this list so now is a good time to begin. The idea is for vcld to handle all of the details so that any module just needs to implement a subroutine named 'setup' and it automatically gets added to the menu. This allows any module to contain options specific to itself but results in a somewhat clunky menu system. It would be good to have a single menu option where all of the tests appear yet still allow each module to implement it's own test code. In order to do this, the setup_management_node sub in vcld will need to be extended. I had thought about adding something like this in the past but never completed it. I was thinking of adding code to vcld to look for modules which implement a 'setup_check' subroutine (the same way it looks for 'setup') and then put all of these under a single menu option. There are a few bits and pieces to look at in the current code. There is a setup_check subroutine in Windows.pm. It simply gets called by Windows.pm::setup every time it is run. It only checks if product keys have been configured. The Module.pm::setup_test_rpc_xml subroutine would be another one that would be part of this. -Andy On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu wrote: Hi, Guys, The web front-end to the VCL has a testsetup.php script that tests a variety of server settings so that the web code is easier to install. I am wondering if there might be interest in building a similar facility into the vcld -setup script. It seems that many of the questions posed on this (and the users') list relate to misconfigured networks and/or provisioning module components. Clearly, the vcld logfile captures all of this, but even that is often turned over to the list for interpretation. This could be a sort of 'dry run' image capture. So here is a stab at what might be useful for such a script to check. My list will be biased heavily in favor of the VMware provisioning modules, because that's what we use in our installation. And I am assuming that the output would be something easy to understand. Network: 1. can vcld get an IP address from a vmhost 'short name' 2. can vcld get an IP address from a given computer 'short name' 3. can vcld reach to the running VM(s) 4. can vcld reach to the VM host 5. can vcld transfer a file to/from the vm host 6. if the image library is enabled, is that accessible Computer: 1. is cygwin installed and sshd running (for Windows) 2. can vcld login successfully 3. does the computer have network access 4. do the computer's MAC addresses match what is expected in the database VM Host: 1. can vcld login to the vm host 2. are the paths listed in vmprofile available in the vmhost infrastructure 3. are certain utilities and/or commands available to vcld from inside the vmhost (i.e. copy virtual disk, create a vm, etc.) etc, etc. Thoughts? Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu
How VCL determines which VM computers to load
Good afternoon to all -- I'm bringing up a production VCL installation with two ESXi servers. I decided to assign all the odd-numbered VMs to *ESXi A*, and all the even-numbered VMs to *ESXi B*. When I started a quantity of simultaneous reversions (all using the same image), this is what happened: ESXi A: nothing ESXi B: VM 2, VM 4, VM 6, VM 8, VM 10 ... VCL had started up all even-numbered computers. Thinking there was a problem with vcld communicating to *ESXi A*, I reassigned ALL of the VMs to* ESXi A* -- I wanted to ensure that *A* could even receive/make a reservation at all. When I ran the same test again, *ESXi A* did take the reservations (yay), but now I see: ESXi A: VM 1, VM 2, VM 3 ... In this case, VCL started the machines up in serial order. I'm trying to spread the load across both ESXi servers, but I need some help interpreting what's happening here... Many thanks, Mike -- *Mike Haudenschild* Education Systems Manager Longsight Group (740) 599-5005 x809 m...@longsight.com www.longsight.com
