Bug 534193 (RHQ-1012)

Summary:	agent restart operation should let you provide some additional options
Product:	[Other] RHQ Project	Reporter:	John Mazzitelli <mazz>
Component:	Agent	Assignee:	RHQ Project Maintainer <rhq-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cwelton, jshaughn
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URL:	http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-1012
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Description John Mazzitelli 2008-10-22 16:17:00 UTC

The agent operation "restart" simply restarts the agent with AgentMain.start().

Would be nice to have another operation that lets you specify some (all?) of the command line options you can give the agent.  I don't know if that will be possible, but the use-case that brought this up was to be able to pass --purgedata when restarting (effectively cleaning the inventory and starting fresh).

Maybe we have "clean restart" operation that implies --purgedata.

I don' t think we want to allow a remote "--cleanconfig" because the agent might then lose configuration and not be able to auto-restart (the setup prompts will have to be asked again, unless the agent-config.xml was custom and the user had it fully configured properly - not something we can assume).

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-11-10 20:21:51 UTC

This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-1012

Comment 2 wes hayutin 2010-02-16 17:08:53 UTC

mass add of key word FutureFeature to help track

Comment 3 Corey Welton 2010-08-18 15:13:01 UTC

Mazz, is this a quick win/change?  Otherwise, let's close.

Comment 4 John Mazzitelli 2010-08-24 17:38:08 UTC

I think this could be a quick win for us - if we do this:

"Maybe we have "clean restart" operation that implies --purgedata."

This means we just add a new operation to the agent plugin that purges the data directory prior to starting the agent VM back up.

This is low priority however.