Bug 794854 - RFE: Provide a way to monitor progress via ovirt.log while installation is proceeding
Summary: RFE: Provide a way to monitor progress via ovirt.log while installation is pr...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: oVirt
Classification: Retired
Component: ovirt-node
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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: 3.4.3
Assignee: Fabian Deutsch
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-17 19:19 UTC by Perry Myers
Modified: 2016-04-26 13:48 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.7.0
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2013-04-04 18:28:38 UTC
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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.


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