Comments inline.

On 16-Jan-2014, at 12:13 pm, Saurav Lahiri <saurav.lah...@sungard.com> wrote:

> Looks like this mail never got onto the users list.
> Shanker,
> Could you please let me know ur thoughts regarding the queries.
>
> Thanks
> Saurav
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Saurav Lahiri <saurav.lah...@sungard.com>
> Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Communication between Management Server and guest vm deployed
> by root admin user
> To: CloudStack-Users <users@cloudstack.apache.org>
>
>
> Shanker,
> Appreciate your response. The suggestion to use a shared admin network
> sounds like a good plan.


> Is this admin network the way you have configured,
> included in cloustack network offering?

http://shankerbalan.net/blog/create-a-shared-network-with-public-ips-in-cloudstack/

> How are customers prevented from
> provisioning their vms in this shared network,so that the admin vms are
> isolated from other customer vms.

While creating the network, you can limit the scope to an account, domain or 
project.


> Also I was thinking that the admin services could also be run on vms
> provisioned by cloudstack by the root admin. Is this the way you are
> provisioning the admin services currently ?

Yep.


>
> Thanks
> Saurav
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Shanker Balan
> <shanker.ba...@shapeblue.com>wrote:
>
>> Comments inline. PS: I am moving this discussison to the user’s list
>> which I feel is a more appropriate place to discuss this query.
>>
>> On 13-Jan-2014, at 1:10 pm, Saurav Lahiri <saurav.lah...@sungard.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Would anybody know if  there is a way that guest vms deployed by root
>> admin
>>> can be included in the system management network or routing configured to
>>> allow traffic flow between the management server and this guest vm.
>>
>> I have a shared network called “Admin" where I run my admin services like
>> logstash, Nagios, collectd, remote syslog server etc.
>>
>>
>> L3 routes are also in place to ensure that Vms on the Public subnet can
>> reach the admin VMs on the shared Admin network.
>>
>> All VMs are configured to push data to the log server, mon servers etc.
>>
>>> What I am trying to achieve is push the management server logs to a guest
>>> vm(deployed by the root admin user)  which will parse/index the log
>> files.
>>> It appears that since the guest vm is not part of the system management
>>> network, the cloudstack management server is unable to reach it.
>>
>>
>> As long as you have routes in place (and proper firewall rules to allow
>> traffic),
>> you would be able to push your logs from guest VMs (or physical hosts like
>> hypervisors) to the designated log collection server(s)
>>
>> buffy:~ shanu$ traceroute log1.prod.internal
>> traceroute to log1.prod.internal (192.168.65.102), 64 hops max, 52 byte
>> packets
>> 1  gw (192.168.44.1)  1.499 ms  1.260 ms *
>> 2  gw2-1 (192.168.44.251)  4.906 ms  1.512 ms  10.242 ms
>> 3  192.168.65.102 (192.168.65.102)  3.961 ms  3.597 ms  4.418 ms
>>
>> 192.168.44.1 is my edge router which has routes to reach my shared
>> admin network 192.168.65.0/24 via 192.168.44.251.
>>
>> Hth.
>>
>>
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