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Name
gnt-node - Node administration
Synopsis
gnt-node {command} [arguments...]
DESCRIPTION
The gnt-node is used for managing the (physical) nodes in the Ganeti system.
COMMANDS
ADD
add [--readd] [{-s|--secondary-ip} secondary_ip]
[{-g|--node-group} nodegroup]
[--master-capable=yes|no] [--vm-capable=yes|no]
[--node-parameters ndparams]
[--disk-state diskstate]
[--hypervisor-state hvstate]
{nodename}
Adds the given node to the cluster.
This command is used to join a new node to the cluster. You will have to provide the password for root
of the node to be able to add the node in the cluster. The command needs to be run on the Ganeti master.
Note that the command is potentially destructive, as it will forcibly join the specified host the
cluster, not paying attention to its current status (it could be already in a cluster, etc.)
The -s (--secondary-ip) is used in dual-home clusters and specifies the new node's IP in the secondary
network. See the discussion in gnt-cluster(8) for more information.
In case you're readding a node after hardware failure, you can use the --readd parameter. In this case,
you don't need to pass the secondary IP again, it will reused from the cluster. Also, the drained and
offline flags of the node will be cleared before re-adding it.
The -g (--node-group) option is used to add the new node into a specific node group, specified by UUID or
name. If only one node group exists you can skip this option, otherwise it's mandatory.
The vm_capable, master_capable, ndparams, diskstate and hvstate options are described in ganeti(7), and
are used to set the properties of the new node.
The command performs some operations that change the state of the master and the new node, like copying
certificates and starting the node daemon on the new node, or updating /etc/hosts on the master node. If
the command fails at a later stage, it doesn't undo such changes. This should not be a problem, as a
successful run of gnt-node add will bring everything back in sync.
If the node was previously part of another cluster and still has daemons running, the node-cleanup tool
can be run on the machine to be added to clean remains of the previous cluster from the node.
Example:
# gnt-node add node5.example.com
# gnt-node add -s 192.0.2.5 node5.example.com
# gnt-node add -g group2 -s 192.0.2.9 node9.group2.example.com
EVACUATE
evacuate [-f] [--early-release] [--submit] [--print-job-id]
[{-I|--iallocator} NAME | {-n|--new-secondary} destination_node]
[{-p|--primary-only} | {-s|--secondary-only} ]
{node}
This command will move instances away from the given node. If --primary-only is given, only primary
instances are evacuated, with --secondary-only only secondaries. If neither is given, all instances are
evacuated. It works only for instances having a drbd disk template.
The new location for the instances can be specified in two ways:
• as a single node for all instances, via the -n (--new-secondary) option
• or via the -I (--iallocator) option, giving a script name as parameter (or . to use the default
allocator), so each instance will be in turn placed on the (per the script) optimal node
The --early-release changes the code so that the old storage on node being evacuated is removed early
(before the resync is completed) and the internal Ganeti locks are also released for both the current
secondary and the new secondary, thus allowing more parallelism in the cluster operation. This should be
used only when recovering from a disk failure on the current secondary (thus the old storage is already
broken) or when the storage on the primary node is known to be fine (thus we won't need the old storage
for potential recovery).
Note that this command is equivalent to using per-instance commands for each affected instance
individually:
• --primary-only is equivalent to performing gnt-instance migrate for every primary instance running on
the node that can be migrated and gnt-instance failover for every primary instance that cannot be
migrated.
• --secondary-only is equivalent to gnt-instance replace-disks in secondary node change mode (--new-
secondary) for every DRBD instance that the node is a secondary for.
• when neither of the above is done a combination of the two cases is run
See ganeti(7) for a description of --submit and other common options.
Example:
# gnt-node evacuate -I hail node3.example.com
Note that, due to an issue with the iallocator interface, evacuation of all instances at once is not yet
implemented. Full evacuation can currently be achieved by sequentially evacuating primaries and
secondaries.
# gnt-node evacuate -p node3.example.com
# gnt-node evacuate -s node3.example.com
FAILOVER
failover [-f] [--ignore-consistency] {node}
This command will fail over all instances having the given node as primary to their secondary nodes.
This works only for instances having a drbd disk template.
Normally the failover will check the consistency of the disks before failing over the instance. If you
are trying to migrate instances off a dead node, this will fail. Use the --ignore-consistency option for
this purpose.
Example:
# gnt-node failover node1.example.com
INFO
info [node...]
Show detailed information about the nodes in the cluster. If you don't give any arguments, all nodes
will be shows, otherwise the output will be restricted to the given names.
LIST
list
[--no-headers] [--separator=SEPARATOR]
[--units=UNITS] [-v] [{-o|--output} [+]FIELD,...]
[--filter]
[node...]
Lists the nodes in the cluster.
The --no-headers option will skip the initial header line. The --separator option takes an argument
which denotes what will be used between the output fields. Both these options are to help scripting.
The units used to display the numeric values in the output varies, depending on the options given. By
default, the values will be formatted in the most appropriate unit. If the --separator option is given,
then the values are shown in mebibytes to allow parsing by scripts. In both cases, the --units option
can be used to enforce a given output unit.
Queries of nodes will be done in parallel with any running jobs. This might give inconsistent results
for the free disk/memory.
The -v option activates verbose mode, which changes the display of special field states (see ganeti(7)).
The -o (--output) option takes a comma-separated list of output fields. The available fields and their
meaning are:
bootid Random UUID renewed for each system reboot, can be used for detecting reboots by tracking changes
cnodes Number of NUMA domains on node (if exported by hypervisor)
cnos Number of logical processors used by the node OS (dom0 for Xen)
csockets
Number of physical CPU sockets (if exported by hypervisor)
ctime Creation timestamp
ctotal Number of logical processors
custom_ndparams
Custom node parameters
dfree Available storage space in storage unit
disk_state
Disk state
drained
Whether node is drained
dtotal Total storage space in storage unit used for instance disk allocation
group Node group
group.uuid
UUID of node group
hv_state
Hypervisor state
master Whether node is master
master_candidate
Whether node is a master candidate
master_capable
Whether node can become a master candidate
mfree Memory available for instance allocations
mnode Amount of memory used by node (dom0 for Xen)
mtime Modification timestamp
mtotal Total amount of memory of physical machine
name Node name
ndp/exclusive_storage
The "exclusive_storage" node parameter
ndp/oob_program
The "oob_program" node parameter
ndp/spindle_count
The "spindle_count" node parameter
ndparams
Merged node parameters
offline
Whether node is marked offline
pinst_cnt
Number of instances with this node as primary
pinst_list
List of instances with this node as primary
pip Primary IP address
powered
Whether node is thought to be powered on
role Node role; "M" for master, "C" for master candidate, "R" for regular, "D" for drained, "O" for
offline
serial_no
Node object serial number, incremented on each modification
sinst_cnt
Number of instances with this node as secondary
sinst_list
List of instances with this node as secondary
sip Secondary IP address
spfree Available spindles in volume group (exclusive storage only)
sptotal
Total spindles in volume group (exclusive storage only)
tags Tags
uuid Node UUID
vm_capable
Whether node can host instances
If the value of the option starts with the character +, the new fields will be added to the default list.
This allows one to quickly see the default list plus a few other fields, instead of retyping the entire
list of fields.
Note that some of these fields are known from the configuration of the cluster (e.g. name, pinst, sinst,
pip, sip) and thus the master does not need to contact the node for this data (making the listing fast if
only fields from this set are selected), whereas the other fields are "live" fields and require a query
to the cluster nodes.
Depending on the virtualization type and implementation details, the mtotal, mnode and mfree fields may
have slightly varying meanings. For example, some solutions share the node memory with the pool of
memory used for instances (KVM), whereas others have separate memory for the node and for the instances
(Xen).
If exactly one argument is given and it appears to be a query filter (see ganeti(7)), the query result is
filtered accordingly. For ambiguous cases (e.g. a single field name as a filter) the --filter (-F)
option forces the argument to be treated as a filter (e.g. gnt-node list -F master_candidate).
If no node names are given, then all nodes are queried. Otherwise, only the given nodes will be listed.
LIST-DRBD
list-drbd [--no-headers] [--separator=SEPARATOR] node
Lists the mapping of DRBD minors for a given node. This outputs a static list of fields (it doesn't
accept the --output option), as follows:
Node The (full) name of the node we are querying
Minor The DRBD minor
Instance
The instance the DRBD minor belongs to
Disk The disk index that the DRBD minor belongs to
Role Either primary or secondary, denoting the role of the node for the instance (note: this is not the
live status of the DRBD device, but the configuration value)
PeerNode
The node that the minor is connected to on the other end
This command can be used as a reverse lookup (from node and minor) to a given instance, which can be
useful when debugging DRBD issues.
Note that this command queries Ganeti via ganeti-confd(8), so it won't be available if support for confd
has not been enabled at build time; furthermore, in Ganeti 2.6 this is only available via the Haskell
version of confd (again selected at build time).
LIST-FIELDS
list-fields [field...]
Lists available fields for nodes.
MIGRATE
migrate [-f] [--non-live] [--migration-mode=live|non-live]
[--ignore-ipolicy] [--submit] [--print-job-id] {node}
This command will migrate all instances having the given node as primary to their secondary nodes. This
works only for instances having a drbd disk template.
As for the gnt-instance migrate command, the options --no-live, --migration-mode and --no-runtime-changes
can be given to influence the migration type.
If --ignore-ipolicy is given any instance policy violations occurring during this operation are ignored.
See ganeti(7) for a description of --submit and other common options.
Example:
# gnt-node migrate node1.example.com
MODIFY
modify [-f] [--submit] [--print-job-id]
[{-C|--master-candidate} yes|no]
[{-D|--drained} yes|no] [{-O|--offline} yes|no]
[--master-capable=yes|no] [--vm-capable=yes|no] [--auto-promote]
[{-s|--secondary-ip} secondary_ip]
[--node-parameters ndparams]
[--node-powered=yes|no]
[--hypervisor-state hvstate]
[--disk-state diskstate]
{node}
This command changes the role of the node. Each options takes either a literal yes or no, and only one
option should be given as yes. The meaning of the roles and flags are described in the manpage
ganeti(7).
The option --node-powered can be used to modify state-of-record if it doesn't reflect the reality
anymore.
In case a node is demoted from the master candidate role, the operation will be refused unless you pass
the --auto-promote option. This option will cause the operation to lock all cluster nodes (thus it will
not be able to run in parallel with most other jobs), but it allows automated maintenance of the cluster
candidate pool. If locking all cluster node is too expensive, another option is to promote manually
another node to master candidate before demoting the current one.
Example (setting a node offline, which will demote it from master candidate role if is in that role):
# gnt-node modify --offline=yes node1.example.com
The -s (--secondary-ip) option can be used to change the node's secondary ip. No drbd instances can be
running on the node, while this operation is taking place. Remember that the secondary ip must be
reachable from the master secondary ip, when being changed, so be sure that the node has the new IP
already configured and active. In order to convert a cluster from single homed to multi-homed or vice
versa --force is needed as well, and the target node for the first change must be the master.
See ganeti(7) for a description of --submit and other common options.
Example (setting the node back to online and master candidate):
# gnt-node modify --offline=no --master-candidate=yes node1.example.com
REMOVE
remove {nodename}
Removes a node from the cluster. Instances must be removed or migrated to another cluster before.
Example:
# gnt-node remove node5.example.com
VOLUMES
volumes [--no-headers] [--human-readable]
[--separator=SEPARATOR] [{-o|--output} FIELDS]
[node...]
Lists all logical volumes and their physical disks from the node(s) provided.
The --no-headers option will skip the initial header line. The --separator option takes an argument
which denotes what will be used between the output fields. Both these options are to help scripting.
The units used to display the numeric values in the output varies, depending on the options given. By
default, the values will be formatted in the most appropriate unit. If the --separator option is given,
then the values are shown in mebibytes to allow parsing by scripts. In both cases, the --units option
can be used to enforce a given output unit.
The -o (--output) option takes a comma-separated list of output fields. The available fields and their
meaning are:
node the node name on which the volume exists
phys the physical drive (on which the LVM physical volume lives)
vg the volume group name
name the logical volume name
size the logical volume size
instance
The name of the instance to which this volume belongs, or (in case it's an orphan volume) the
character "-"
Example:
# gnt-node volumes node5.example.com
Node PhysDev VG Name Size Instance
node1.example.com /dev/hdc1 xenvg instance1.example.com-sda_11000.meta 128 instance1.example.com
node1.example.com /dev/hdc1 xenvg instance1.example.com-sda_11001.data 256 instance1.example.com
LIST-STORAGE
list-storage [--no-headers] [--human-readable]
[--separator=SEPARATOR] [--storage-type=STORAGE_TYPE]
[{-o|--output} FIELDS]
[node...]
Lists the available storage units and their details for the given node(s).
The --no-headers option will skip the initial header line. The --separator option takes an argument
which denotes what will be used between the output fields. Both these options are to help scripting.
The units used to display the numeric values in the output varies, depending on the options given. By
default, the values will be formatted in the most appropriate unit. If the --separator option is given,
then the values are shown in mebibytes to allow parsing by scripts. In both cases, the --units option
can be used to enforce a given output unit.
The --storage-type option can be used to choose a storage unit type. Possible choices are lvm-pv, lvm-vg
or file.
The -o (--output) option takes a comma-separated list of output fields. The available fields and their
meaning are:
node the node name on which the volume exists
type the type of the storage unit (currently just what is passed in via --storage-type)
name the path/identifier of the storage unit
size total size of the unit; for the file type see a note below
used used space in the unit; for the file type see a note below
free available disk space
allocatable
whether we the unit is available for allocation (only lvm-pv can change this setting, the other
types always report true)
Note that for the "file" type, the total disk space might not equal to the sum of used and free, due to
the method Ganeti uses to compute each of them. The total and free values are computed as the total and
free space values for the filesystem to which the directory belongs, but the used space is computed from
the used space under that directory only, which might not be necessarily the root of the filesystem, and
as such there could be files outside the file storage directory using disk space and causing a mismatch
in the values.
Example:
node1# gnt-node list-storage node2
Node Type Name Size Used Free Allocatable
node2 lvm-pv /dev/sda7 673.8G 1.5G 672.3G Y
node2 lvm-pv /dev/sdb1 698.6G 0M 698.6G Y
MODIFY-STORAGE
modify-storage [--allocatable={yes|no}] [--submit] [--print-job-id]
{node} {storage-type} {volume-name}
Modifies storage volumes on a node. Only LVM physical volumes can be modified at the moment. They have
a storage type of "lvm-pv".
Example:
# gnt-node modify-storage --allocatable no node5.example.com lvm-pv /dev/sdb1
REPAIR-STORAGE
repair-storage [--ignore-consistency] ]--submit]
{node} {storage-type} {volume-name}
Repairs a storage volume on a node. Only LVM volume groups can be repaired at this time. They have the
storage type "lvm-vg".
On LVM volume groups, repair-storage runs vgreduce --removemissing.
Caution: Running this command can lead to data loss. Use it with care.
The --ignore-consistency option will ignore any inconsistent disks (on the nodes paired with this one).
Use of this option is most likely to lead to data-loss.
Example:
# gnt-node repair-storage node5.example.com lvm-vg xenvg
POWERCYCLE
powercycle [--yes] [--force] [--submit] [--print-job-id] {node}
This command (tries to) forcefully reboot a node. It is a command that can be used if the node
environment is broken, such that the admin can no longer login over SSH, but the Ganeti node daemon is
still working.
Note that this command is not guaranteed to work; it depends on the hypervisor how effective is the
reboot attempt. For Linux, this command requires the kernel option CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ to be enabled.
The --yes option can be used to skip confirmation, while the --force option is needed if the target node
is the master node.
See ganeti(7) for a description of --submit and other common options.
POWER
power [--force] [--ignore-status] [--all] [--power-delay] on|off|cycle|status [nodes]
This command calls out to out-of-band management to change the power state of given node. With status
you get the power status as reported by the out-of-band management script.
Note that this command will only work if the out-of-band functionality is configured and enabled on the
cluster. If this is not the case, please use the powercycle command above.
Using --force you skip the confirmation to do the operation. Currently this only has effect on off and
cycle. On those two you can not operate on the master. However, the command will provide you with the
command to invoke to operate on the master nerver-mind. This is considered harmful and Ganeti does not
support the use of it.
Providing --ignore-status will ignore the offline=N state of a node and continue with power off.
--power-delay specifies the time in seconds (factions allowed) waited between powering on the next node.
This is by default 2 seconds but can increased if needed with this option.
nodes are optional. If not provided it will call out for every node in the cluster. Except for the off
and cycle command where you've to explicit use --all to select all.
HEALTH
health [nodes]
This command calls out to out-of-band management to ask for the health status of all or given nodes. The
health contains the node name and then the items element with their status in a item=status manner.
Where item is script specific and status can be one of OK, WARNING, CRITICAL or UNKNOWN. Items with
status WARNING or CRITICAL are logged and annotated in the command line output.
RESTRICTED-COMMAND
restricted-command [-M] [--sync]
{ -g group command | command nodes... }
Executes a restricted command on the specified nodes. Restricted commands are not arbitrary, but must
reside in /etc/ganeti/restricted-commands on a node, either as a regular file or as a symlink. The
directory must be owned by root and not be world- or group-writable. If a command fails verification or
otherwise fails to start, the node daemon log must be consulted for more detailed information.
Example for running a command on two nodes:
# gnt-node restricted-command mycommand \
node1.example.com node2.example.com
The -g option can be used to run a command only on a specific node group, e.g.:
# gnt-node restricted-command -g default mycommand
The -M option can be used to prepend the node name to all command output lines. --sync forces the opcode
to acquire the node lock(s) in exclusive mode.
Tags
ADD-TAGS
add-tags [--from file] {nodename} {tag...}
Add tags to the given node. If any of the tags contains invalid characters, the entire operation will
abort.
If the --from option is given, the list of tags will be extended with the contents of that file (each
line becomes a tag). In this case, there is not need to pass tags on the command line (if you do, both
sources will be used). A file name of - will be interpreted as stdin.
LIST-TAGS
list-tags {nodename}
List the tags of the given node.
REMOVE-TAGS
remove-tags [--from file] {nodename} {tag...}
Remove tags from the given node. If any of the tags are not existing on the node, the entire operation
will abort.
If the --from option is given, the list of tags to be removed will be extended with the contents of that
file (each line becomes a tag). In this case, there is not need to pass tags on the command line (if you
do, tags from both sources will be removed). A file name of - will be interpreted as stdin.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to project website (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/) or contact the developers using the Ganeti mailing list (ganeti@googlegroups.com).
SEE ALSO
Ganeti overview and specifications: ganeti(7) (general overview), ganeti-os-interface(7) (guest OS definitions), ganeti-extstorage-interface(7) (external storage providers). Ganeti commands: gnt-cluster(8) (cluster-wide commands), gnt-job(8) (job-related commands), gnt-node(8) (node-related commands), gnt-instance(8) (instance commands), gnt-os(8) (guest OS commands), gnt- storage(8) (storage commands), gnt-group(8) (node group commands), gnt-backup(8) (instance import/export commands), gnt-debug(8) (debug commands). Ganeti daemons: ganeti-watcher(8) (automatic instance restarter), ganeti-cleaner(8) (job queue cleaner), ganeti-noded(8) (node daemon), ganeti-masterd(8) (master daemon), ganeti-rapi(8) (remote API daemon). Ganeti htools: htools(1) (generic binary), hbal(1) (cluster balancer), hspace(1) (capacity calculation), hail(1) (IAllocator plugin), hscan(1) (data gatherer from remote clusters), hinfo(1) (cluster information printer), mon-collector(7) (data collectors interface).
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