Bug 670700

Summary:	Add support to Matahari to replace need for vhostmd SAP agent
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Perry Myers <pmyers>
Component:	matahari	Assignee:	Zane Bitter <zbitter>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ddumas, dpierce, fdanapfe, helge.deller, imain, linux, matahari-maint, nsantos, rdoty, rjones
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Description Perry Myers 2011-01-19 02:00:04 UTC

Description of problem:
vhostmd is used presently to provide host level statistics to guests running SAP software.  vhostmd is a custom interface that is only used for SAP running on top of KVM guests.

It would be desirable to move the SAP requirements to a communication transport that is more standardized.  One option is to provide the host level statistics via the Matahari host/guest interface via the virtio-serial transport.

Some notes on what vhostmd does presently:
- vhostmd on the host regularly reads /etc/vhostmd.conf and processes the commands in this XML file to gather the required metrics
- the results form the commands are written into another XML-file which is normally stored in /dev/shm/vhostmd0
- /dev/shm/vhostmd0 hast to be attached as a file-based storage device to any guest that wants to read the metrics
- on the guest "vm-dump-metrics" is called by saposcol to gather the metrics; saposcoll then processes the XML-file and feeds the metrics into the SAP system itself

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-01-19 10:44:47 UTC

Has anyone talked to SAP about this?  They will need to
do extra work on saposocl.

Comment 2 Frank Danapfel 2011-01-19 11:06:29 UTC

Richard, yes there has been a meeting a while ago between Andrew, Perry and the SAP developer who maintains saposcol, and SAP is aware that there might be work required on their side.

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-01-11 08:34:47 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Denise Dumas 2012-04-19 19:21:47 UTC

Per Perry, closing this out. Problem will be solved in a different manner.