Hello, I get an error "libvir: error : name in virDomainLookupByName must not be NULL" when trying to collect nova compute counters for VMs:
Problem seems to occur inside ceilometer/compute/pollsters.py's _instance_name() method where OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name can't be retrieved: def _instance_name(instance): """Shortcut to get instance name.""" # my modifications start LOG.debug("HEEHO _instance_name 1: " + str(instance)) name = getattr(instance, 'OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name', None) LOG.debug("HEEHO _instance_name 2: " + str(name)) # my modifications end return getattr(instance, 'OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name', None) Log: 2013-06-20 21:16:57 INFO [ceilometer.compute.manager] Polling pollster cpu 2013-06-20 21:16:57 INFO [ceilometer.compute.pollsters.cpu] checking instance 6dcd9975-66c9-48ed-8ad1-e2174a94c99e 2013-06-20 21:16:57 DEBUG [ceilometer.compute.pollsters] MYLOG _instance_name 1: <Server: simpletest.MySimpleApp> 2013-06-20 21:16:57 DEBUG [ceilometer.compute.pollsters] MYLOG _instance_name 2: None libvir: error : name in virDomainLookupByName must not be NULL 2013-06-20 21:16:57 ERROR [ceilometer.compute.pollsters.cpu] could not get CPU time for 6dcd9975-66c9-48ed-8ad1-e2174a94c99e: Error from libvirt while looking up None: [Error Code 8] name in virDomainLookupByName must not be NULL 2013-06-20 21:16:57 ERROR [ceilometer.compute.pollsters.cpu] Error from libvirt while looking up None: [Error Code 8] name in virDomainLookupByName must not be NULL Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer-2013.1.1.a16.g93ea469-py2.7.egg/ceilometer/compute/pollsters.py", line 176, in get_counters cpu_info = manager.inspector.inspect_cpus(instance_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer-2013.1.1.a16.g93ea469-py2.7.egg/ceilometer/compute/virt/libvirt/inspector.py", line 103, in inspect_cpus domain = self._lookup_by_name(instance_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer-2013.1.1.a16.g93ea469-py2.7.egg/ceilometer/compute/virt/libvirt/inspector.py", line 87, in _lookup_by_name raise virt_inspector.InstanceNotFoundException(msg) InstanceNotFoundException: Error from libvirt while looking up None: [Error Code 8] name in virDomainLookupByName must not be NULL Any ideas what causes this behaviour? I have grizzly in use. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, -Juha
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