Jira for tracking progress, and a design page on the wiki for any design info.
> On Mar 18, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Sonal Ojha <sonal.o...@sungard.com> wrote: > > Shall I go ahead and open a jira item on this to add more details? > > >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Sonal Ojha <sonal.o...@sungard.com> wrote: >> >> Hello Nitin, >> >> I agree with you, to start with we can replace the event descriptions to >> include the resource UUIDs of the required parameters only. For example, >> DetachIsoCmd needs only virtualMachineId as the required parameter. Hence, >> the event description should include the resource UUID for the virtual >> machine. Likewise the required parameters resource UUIDs would be included >> in the event description. >> >> -Sonal >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com>wrote: >> >>> Sonal - This is a great proposal. In addition, you should also include all >>> the first class entities involved in the event. >>> Say its a detach iso on a vm - then I should have uuids for both the iso >>> and the vm. This would definitely help giving more information and in >>> debugging. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Nitin >>> >>> On 17/03/14 9:52 AM, "Alena Prokharchyk" <alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On #1 I would say “display UUID INSTEAD of the DB id in the events API”. >>>> We should never expose the DB ids to the API caller, especially if the >>>> caller is not an admin. I guess we just never revised the events after >>>> UUIDs were introduced. >>>> >>>> On #4. We should distinguish between end user and an admin and determine >>>> which errors are allowed to be shown to the end user. For example, he >>>> shouldn’t see any errors related to physical resources allocation error >>> as >>>> he has no knowledge about hosts/storages/physical network topology. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Alena. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 3/17/14, 9:40 AM, "John Kinsella" <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I didn’t see comments from others, but this sounds great to me. More >>> info >>>>> is always better IMHO. >>>>> >>>>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 2:31 AM, Sonal Ojha >>>>> <sonal.o...@sungard.com<mailto:sonal.o...@sungard.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Currently the event logged in CloudStack doesn't give detailed >>>>> information >>>>> about the event that has occurred. The information provided in each >>> event >>>>> shown on the cloudstack ui doesn't provide specifics, particularly in >>>>> case >>>>> of errors. For example, the message shown on the cloudstack ui is just >>>>> "Error while starting Vm. Vm Id: <id>" in case of failure to start a vm >>> , >>>>> which doesnt help much. >>>>> >>>>> I would like to propose some changes to enhance the events to be more >>>>> informative. Like: >>>>> >>>>> 1) Instead of just showing resource database id in the event details it >>>>> should also display resource UUID. Since all the cloudstack apis take >>>>> input >>>>> as resource uuid it would be helpful to see the same on the ui as well. >>>>> Like in the quickview mode introduce another field as resource UUID >>> which >>>>> would specify the UUID for the resource on which the event occurred. >>>>> >>>>> 2) Enhance the events and listEvents API to include the resource UUID so >>>>> that it can be queried by the resource UUID as well. >>>>> >>>>> 3) Currently, the event description messages are specified in the >>>>> *Cmd.java >>>>> file instead, all of them should be externalize to a resource file. This >>>>> would be helpful even for internationalization. >>>>> >>>>> 4) Provide more detailed messages in case of error events. Messages such >>>>> as >>>>> "Error while starting VM" are generic to take any action. >>>>> >>>>> These changes could be taken forward in phases, some suggestion like >>>>> >>>>> Phase I - >>>>> include 2 and 3 point mentioned above >>>>> Phase II - >>>>> include 1 and 4 point mentioned above >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts / Suggestions ? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> ___________________________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> *Sonal Ojha* ● Senior Engineer - Product Developement ● SunGard >>>>> Availability Services, India ● Mobile: +91 9922412645● Email: >>>>> sonal.o...@sungard.com<mailto:sonal.o...@sungard.com> ● Website: >>>>> http://www.sungardas.in/ >>>>> >>>>> 8 Times Winner – BC Service Provider of the Year – 2011, 2010, 2009, >>>>> 2006, >>>>> 2005, 2002, 2000, 1999; Finalist – 2008, 2007, 2004, 2001 ● Excellence >>> in >>>>> Infrastructure Management – 2010 ● Outstanding Excellence in Business >>>>> Continuity – 2008 ● Business Continuity Provider of the Year (BCM >>>>> Service) >>>>> – 2013 BCI Global Awards ● Business Continuity Provider of the Year (BCM >>>>> Product) – 2013 BCI India Awards >>>>> >>>>> Stratosec<http://stratosec.co/> - Compliance as a Service >>>>> o: 415.315.9385 >>>>> @johnlkinsella<http://twitter.com/johnlkinsella> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> ___________________________________________________ >> >> *Sonal Ojha* ● Senior Engineer - Product Developement ● SunGard >> Availability Services, India ● Mobile: +91 9922412645● Email: >> sonal.o...@sungard.com ● Website: http://www.sungardas.in/ >> >> 8 Times Winner – BC Service Provider of the Year – 2011, 2010, 2009, 2006, >> 2005, 2002, 2000, 1999; Finalist – 2008, 2007, 2004, 2001 ● Excellence in >> Infrastructure Management – 2010 ● Outstanding Excellence in Business >> Continuity – 2008 ● Business Continuity Provider of the Year (BCM >> Service) – 2013 BCI Global Awards ● Business Continuity Provider of the >> Year (BCM Product) – 2013 BCI India Awards >> >> *[image: AS_yt]* <http://www.youtube.com/user/SunGardAS>*[image: >> AS_twitter]* <https://twitter.com/SunGardASIN>*[image: >> AS_in]*<http://www.linkedin.com/company/sungardasin>*[image: >> AS_gplus]* <https://plus.google.com/102459878242108588663/>*[image: >> AS_fb]* <https://www.facebook.com/sungardas.in>*[image: >> AS_ss]*<http://www.slideshare.net/SunGardASIN/documents> > > > > -- > > Regards, > > ___________________________________________________ > > *Sonal Ojha* ● Senior Engineer - Product Developement ● SunGard > Availability Services, India ● Mobile: +91 9922412645● Email: > sonal.o...@sungard.com ● Website: http://www.sungardas.in/ > > 8 Times Winner – BC Service Provider of the Year – 2011, 2010, 2009, 2006, > 2005, 2002, 2000, 1999; Finalist – 2008, 2007, 2004, 2001 ● Excellence in > Infrastructure Management – 2010 ● Outstanding Excellence in Business > Continuity – 2008 ● Business Continuity Provider of the Year (BCM Service) > – 2013 BCI Global Awards ● Business Continuity Provider of the Year (BCM > Product) – 2013 BCI India Awards > > *[image: AS_yt]* <http://www.youtube.com/user/SunGardAS>*[image: > AS_twitter]* <https://twitter.com/SunGardASIN>*[image: > AS_in]*<http://www.linkedin.com/company/sungardasin>*[image: > AS_gplus]* <https://plus.google.com/102459878242108588663/>*[image: > AS_fb]*<https://www.facebook.com/sungardas.in>*[image: > AS_ss]* <http://www.slideshare.net/SunGardASIN/documents>
