Bug 794854

Summary:	RFE: Provide a way to monitor progress via ovirt.log while installation is proceeding
Product:	[Retired] oVirt	Reporter:	Perry Myers <pmyers>
Component:	ovirt-node	Assignee:	Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	acathrow, fdeutsch, jboggs, mburns, ovirt-bugs, ovirt-maint
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Target Release:	3.4.3
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Fixed In Version:	2.7.0	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Description Perry Myers 2012-02-17 19:19:07 UTC

During the text mode installation, a progress bar is put on the screen to show installation progress while detailed output is put into ovirt.log file.

It would be nice if the user could hit a keystroke (like ESC) to switch from watching the low detail progress bar to watching the tail -f output of ovirt.log.

Hitting ESC again should take them back to the progress bar.

This might be technically challenging to implement given the constraints of the Newt interface, but perhaps something from Anaconda can be used here.

Comment 1 Fabian Deutsch 2013-03-21 13:56:05 UTC

With the new TUI installer there are more informations on the screen provided during the installation.
Additionally - and for the case of a failed installation - a user can drop to shell to gather more debug informations.

To me this is a good differentiation: One the one side we provide summarized informations about the installation status and on the other hand we are providing a way to gather further debug infos. Beeing in this situation I don't see the need to monitor ovirt.log - besides that is ovirt.log containing many informations, but it's hard to distill the relevant bits.

Comment 2 Perry Myers 2013-03-26 12:59:29 UTC

Agreed.  As long as the user is getting high level status in the new installation UI, that seems sufficient.

Comment 3 Fabian Deutsch 2013-04-04 18:28:38 UTC

Okay, that's the case, closing this. Please re-open if needed.