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Hi guys,
I've got MOM up and running as a vdsm thread but I've hit two small problems. I'll bounce them around on the list to see if people have some ideas.
1.) Libvirt SASL authentication
I was able to easily modify MOM to connect to libvirt by hardcoding the vdsm credentials. Obviously this is not an acceptable long-term solution. What is the best way to share the vdsm libvirt password with MOM in a way that does not compromise security? Whatever method we choose should not involve vdsm-specific changes to MOM. For starters I think I will just place the username and password in the mom.conf file. We could make this file readable only by the vdsm user. Thoughts?
2.) Permissions
The first error I noticed was MOM failing to adjust KSM via sysfs:
2011-11-22 10:13:48,313 - mom.Controllers.KSM - WARNING - KSM: Failed to write /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run: Permission denied
MOM is used to running as root so that it can adjust these settings. I would prefer not to complicate the MOM architecture by having a separate process that receives instructions from the main MOM thread and then applies the requested changes as root.
Another solution would be to allow MOM to run as a completely separate daemon (as it has been originally doing). In this scenario, vdsm would reconfigure MOM by replacing the default configuration file and policy. vdsm could then interact with the running momd via the existing xmlrpc interface.
Thoughts on these issues?
In continuation to our discussion from yesterday, both issues would be non-issues if we were to fully integrate MOM into vdsm. However, I get the feeling we might be mixing things here. Correct me if I'm wrong but the general architecture is: different data collectors -> MOM policy engine -> actions to perform Seeing as vdsm already today monitors and collects info from the guests, it should just be defined as a data collector and solve that side of the issue. Then we have the issue of performing the actions. Currently mom executes these directly, right? if so, we could split that so that mom's output is a series of actions to perform which vdsm could then execute (if this sounds familiar it is because this is how pacemaker works and I think they got it right).
This means that in the vdsm-less scenario we would be missing an orchestrator, but that could easily be adapted.
Then whether the policy engine runs as a daemon or is just spawned internally is up to the application calling it.
-- Adam Litke agl@us.ibm.com IBM Linux Technology Center
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