Bug 895586

Summary: RFE: Display more information on cause of instance error state on UI
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Reporter: Stephen Gordon <sgordon>
Component: python-django-horizonAssignee: Julie Pichon <jpichon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Amit Ugol <augol>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 2.1CC: aortega, athomas, augol, ddomingo, dnavale, jdexter, jpichon, mrunge, oblaut, tvvcox, wcrider
Target Milestone: Upstream M1Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release: 5.0 (RHEL 7)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: python-django-horizon-2014.1-4.el7ost Doc Type: Enhancement
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Previously, when the status of an instance updated to 'Error', there was no feedback displayed on the UI. With this update, information about the error displayed for 'nova show [instance_id]' is displayed on the Instance Details UI page.
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Last Closed: 2014-07-08 15:42:27 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 891051, 895588    
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Description Stephen Gordon 2013-01-15 15:27:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

When creating an instance fails no user-actionable feedback is displayed in the UI. 

- The status of the instance updates to "Error".
- Clicking through to the instance overview yields no additional information.
- Clicking the logs tab yields no logs.

As a result when an instance fails to start the user's only recourse is to head to the command line and use nova show (and even that is a bit of a hit and miss affair, see Bug #891051).

The cause for the failure to create the instance should be made visible via the UI.
Comment 1 Julie Pichon 2013-05-07 17:57:10 UTC 
Agreed, although Horizon can only display whatever information is returned by the nova API.
Comment 2 Stephen Gordon 2013-05-07 18:18:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Agreed, although Horizon can only display whatever information is returned
> by the nova API.

My understanding based on the below is that some more information to this end is available from Nova in Grizzly:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891051#c4
Comment 3 Julie Pichon 2013-10-09 09:33:22 UTC 
As part of launchpad bug 1236168 (merged in Icehouse M1), Horizon now shows an error message when failing to launch an instance (what you would get with 'nova show'). We probably still want to at least add this info to the Instances Details page, though.
Comment 4 Julie Pichon 2013-11-27 10:38:07 UTC 
*** Bug 1033141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Julie Pichon 2013-12-05 12:09:28 UTC 
Note the previously linked patch was merged into Icehouse-1 and adds information about the error to the Instance Details page (as shown by `nova show <instance id>`).
Comment 6 Jeff Dexter 2014-05-07 15:40:23 UTC 
Attaching sfdc ticket 01080752 to track when RFE is complete
Comment 7 Julie Pichon 2014-05-27 10:08:54 UTC 
This should already be available in the current RHEL OSP 5 packages, updating status.
Comment 8 Amit Ugol 2014-06-19 05:23:41 UTC 
Created attachment 910250 [details]
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Comment 9 Amit Ugol 2014-06-19 05:24:14 UTC 
verified on python-django-horizon-2014.1-7.el7ost.noarch.
curreent error shows the short description + the http error code + related error.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-08 15:42:27 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2014-0855.html