I'd like to add in a feature to automatically capture an image and at
the end of or at the timeout of image creation reservations.
There have been some cases, where end-users have been in image creation
mode, made many changes, then lost everything due to their reservation
being timed out. This feature, would at the end of their imaging
reservation automatically start the image capture process instead of
timing it out.
The changes would be minor and would affect the front end and the
backend inuse module.
frontend changes:
* add create image routines to available xmlrpc functions
* additionally the frontend would
1 insert new image if it was a kickstart type image
2 insert new image if end-user is not the image owner
3 update the image if end-user is the image owner
inuse.pm changes
- when end time is reached - 10 minute warning
- and if request has forimaging flag set
- send different message to end-user about automatically starting the
capture process
- call xmrpc_create_image with reservation/request id
- exit quietly from the insue.pm module (imaging process will take over)
Note this would affect anyone here who is using image creation
reservations for long-term reservations to get around the check-user
flag. As part of service loads scheduled for the 2.3 release I think we
had planned to extend user and user group attributes to disable user
checks on per reservation using a user attribute in addition to the
current image profile attribute.
Unless anyone chimes in over the next days, I'll assume it's ok to move
forward on this change.
Aaron
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Aaron Peeler
Program Manager
Virtual Computing Lab
NC State University
