Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Status of "management port" in 3.0?

[Jerry Gulla <jgulla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info.  It certianly seems as if the http interface
isn't ready for much yet.  Using ssh is probably a much safer
approach. I appreciate the help; I'll look for you on #xen if I get
stuck.

Thanks again,

Jerry


On 10/3/05, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jerry Gulla wrote:
>
> >Thanks. I had to add that line to my config and then it opened up
> >8000/8001.  I haven't been able to get gXenophilia to work with it,
> >though.   I was really wondering what the "right" answer is for trying
> >to talk to Xen remotely, however. I know that long term, there has
> >been talk of a true "web services" way to do things, and in 2.x we had
> >the http server ports open (and documented) by default, but it seems
> >that currently there is no good indication of what to do.
> >
> >
> Just FYI, I'm pretty sure the HTTP transport is borked in 3.0 right
> now.  I wrote a wrapper for it a few weeks ago and put a less stress on
> it and it crapped out very quickly.  Since it's off by default, I
> haven't investigated it.
>
> >Any idea when there will be a solid direction on what do to for the 3.0 
> >release?
> >
> >
> A good approach for management applications is remote ssh.  xm list
> --long is your friend and will give you all of the information you
> need.  Plus, you get authentication/authorization for free.  If you use
> the -S option of SSH, you can multiplex many commands over a single
> connection efficiently (and only have to prompt for password once).
> Just catch me in #xen if you want more info about this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jerry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:43:07PM -0400, Jerry Gulla wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>I (finally) got Apache->mod_python->xend working so I can use the
> >>>>(currently somewhat limited) web UI for Xen 3.0.  In Xen 2.0, there
> >>>>was a process listening on  port 8000 that allowed an application to
> >>>>query / change the configuration; I believe this is how gXenophilia
> >>>>worked.
> >>>>
> >>>>It seems as if in 3.0, however, nobody is listening on this port any
> >>>>more. I've modified /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp to specify a port (and
> >>>>open up more than 'localhost'), but this doesn't seem to have an
> >>>>effect.
> >>>>
> >>>>Is this going to be working some time in the near future for Xen 3.0,
> >>>>or am I missing something (again :-)?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>You need to specify (xend-http-server true) in xend-config.sxp as well.  I
> >>>don't know whether this is new.  I also don't know how well supported this
> >>>interface is, and whether it will be in the future; looking at
> >>>http://mymachine:8000/xend I see things that look almost like useful
> >>>information, but that look a little bit broken too.
> >>>
> >>>Ewan.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
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