cloudstack/agent
Wido den Hollander b130e55088 CLOUDSTACK-9397: Add Watchdog timer to KVM Instance (#1707)
The watchdog timer adds functionality where the Hypervisor can detect if an
instance has crashed or stopped functioning.
The watchdog timer adds functionality where the Hypervisor can detect if an
instance has crashed or stopped functioning.

When the Instance has the 'watchdog' daemon running it will send heartbeats
to the /dev/watchdog device.

If these heartbeats are no longer received by the HV it will reset the Instance.

If the Instance never sends the heartbeats the HV does not take action. It only
takes action if it stops sending heartbeats.

This is supported since Libvirt 0.7.3 and can be defined in the XML format as
described in the docs: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsWatchdog

To the 'devices' section this will be added:

In the agent.properties the action to be taken can be defined:

vm.watchdog.action=reset

The same goes for the model. The Intel i6300esb is however the most commonly used.

vm.watchdog.model=i6300esb

When the Instance has the 'watchdog' daemon running it will send heartbeats
to the /dev/watchdog device.

If these heartbeats are no longer received by the HV it will reset the Instance.

If the Instance never sends the heartbeats the HV does not take action. It only
takes action if it stops sending heartbeats.

This is supported since Libvirt 0.7.3 and can be defined in the XML format as
described in the docs: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsWatchdog

To the 'devices' section this will be added:

  <watchdog model='i6300esb' action='reset'/>

In the agent.properties the action to be taken can be defined:

  vm.watchdog.action=reset

The same goes for the model. The Intel i6300esb is however the most commonly used.

  vm.watchdog.model=i6300esb

Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
2017-09-28 13:56:15 +05:30
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bindir Skip VXLANs when rewriting the bridge name for migrations 2016-05-17 10:15:53 +01:00
conf CLOUDSTACK-9397: Add Watchdog timer to KVM Instance (#1707) 2017-09-28 13:56:15 +05:30
distro fix kvm agent upgrade issue: kvm agent needs to use java 7 instead of java 6 after upgrade Reviewed-by: Sheng 2014-10-27 17:31:31 -07:00
src/com/cloud/agent CLOUDSTACK-9993: Securing Agents Communications (#2239) 2017-08-28 12:15:11 +02:00
test/com/cloud/agent CLOUDSTACK-9993: Securing Agents Communications (#2239) 2017-08-28 12:15:11 +02:00
pom.xml Updating pom.xml version numbers for release 4.11.0.0-SNAPSHOT 2017-07-12 12:09:38 +05:30