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Posted to user@vcl.apache.org by Michael Jinks <mj...@uchicago.edu> on 2012/07/28 05:56:17 UTC
Image captures, loads, but not available for reservation
I have a Linux template, named "linux_template_v23_", that mostly works
but has a fatal bug in the config file for its public network interface.
So, I built and captured a new, corrrected build, called
"linux_template_26_".
So far so good. The new build captured successfully, and I can select
one of my VM definitions, load the new image, and that succeeds, with
the VM ending up marked "Available" in the database, accessable from the
net and so on.
The trouble comes when I try to select the new image in the reservations
interface. The name appears in the dropdown, but when I select it the
UI immediately prints a red line, "Selection not currently available".
The old profile doesn't have that problem.
I can't think what I did differently for the older template. I've
looked all over the UI, plus a couple of the backing tables, and I can't
find any difference between the two templates that explains why one is
available and the other isn't.
In requests.php I find:
$rc = isAvailable($images, $imageid, $imagerevisionid, $start, $end);
[...]
if($rc < 1) {
print "'<font color=red>Selection not currently available</font>'; ";
print "if(dojo.byId('newsubmit')) dojo.byId('newsubmit').value = 'View Time Table';";
...and in utils I find that the isAvailable function checks a lot of
conditions before returning an integer less than 1 on error, so the
cause of that message could be a few different things.
A few more items, maybe relevant: Currently I have VM computers defined
and available, associated with a working ESX host, both with and without
the new template in their currentimage field.
When I reload the image on a VM, that seems to go flawlessly, best we've
seen since we started this project: the VM boots, gets its networking
right, accepts SSH from the management node and gets its post-boot
reconfiguration done. I'm logged into one now and everything looks just
fine. But, not currently available.
Any ideas where to look next? I'm stumped.
--
Michael Jinks :: mjinks@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688
University of Chicago IT Services
Re: Shibboleth user group creation and managment - Solved
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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Al,
What did you update in shibauth/index.php? My knowledge of Shibboleth is
somewhat limited, but I would not have thought it needed any changes, just a
change in how the shibboleth mappings are configured in
/etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml.
Josh
On Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:37:04 PM Evelio Quiros wrote:
> Hello Josh,
>
> Yes, that was the problem.
> I updated index.php in the shibauth directory, and mapped the affiliation
> attributes to the database.
> Now it works again. Thanks for your help.
>
> Al Quiros
> Florida International University
>
> On 8/1/12 4:36 PM, "Josh Thompson" <jo...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
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> >Al,
> >
> >There were not many changes to the code related to Shibboleth. It sounds
> >like
> >Shibboleth may not be passing the correct affiliation information for the
> >student user to the VCL web code. You can create a file in vcl/shibauth
> >named
> >shibdata.php with the following in it to see what is getting passed to
> >the VCL
> >code by Shibboleth:
> >
> ><?php
> >print "<pre>";
> >print_r($_SERVER);
> >print "</pre>";
> >}
> >?>
> >
> >Then, open https://your.vcl.site/vcl/shibauth/shibdata.php with the
> >problematic user logged in to see if anything is set for [affiliation].
> >If
> >you do not, or the field is just an empty string, then VCL is not getting
> >the
> >data from Shibboleth.
> >
> >Josh
> >
> >On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:06:34 PM Evelio Quiros wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> We just upgraded our 2.2.1 installation to 2.3.
> >>
> >> Before update, students were able to login and be put into a
> >> "shib-student" group.
> >> VCL would have created the group on first login.
> >> But after the upgrade, students can still login, but the VCL did not
> >> create the shib-student group.
> >>
> >> I added the group manually to the database as a federated group, but
> >> student logins are not being put into it.
> >>
> >> Staff can login using Shibboleth, and they are put into the shib-staff
> >> group ok.
> >>
> >> Did something change in the way VCL handles Shibboleth with the new
> >> version ?
> >> Did I forget to copy over a config from the old site ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Al Q
> >> FIU
> >
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> >VCL Developer
> >North Carolina State University
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Re: Shibboleth user group creation and managment - Solved
Posted by Evelio Quiros <ev...@fiu.edu>.
Hello Josh,
Yes, that was the problem.
I updated index.php in the shibauth directory, and mapped the affiliation
attributes to the database.
Now it works again. Thanks for your help.
Al Quiros
Florida International University
On 8/1/12 4:36 PM, "Josh Thompson" <jo...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
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>Al,
>
>There were not many changes to the code related to Shibboleth. It sounds
>like
>Shibboleth may not be passing the correct affiliation information for the
>student user to the VCL web code. You can create a file in vcl/shibauth
>named
>shibdata.php with the following in it to see what is getting passed to
>the VCL
>code by Shibboleth:
>
><?php
>print "<pre>";
>print_r($_SERVER);
>print "</pre>";
>}
>?>
>
>Then, open https://your.vcl.site/vcl/shibauth/shibdata.php with the
>problematic user logged in to see if anything is set for [affiliation].
>If
>you do not, or the field is just an empty string, then VCL is not getting
>the
>data from Shibboleth.
>
>Josh
>
>On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:06:34 PM Evelio Quiros wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We just upgraded our 2.2.1 installation to 2.3.
>>
>> Before update, students were able to login and be put into a
>> "shib-student" group.
>> VCL would have created the group on first login.
>> But after the upgrade, students can still login, but the VCL did not
>> create the shib-student group.
>>
>> I added the group manually to the database as a federated group, but
>> student logins are not being put into it.
>>
>> Staff can login using Shibboleth, and they are put into the shib-staff
>> group ok.
>>
>> Did something change in the way VCL handles Shibboleth with the new
>> version ?
>> Did I forget to copy over a config from the old site ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Al Q
>> FIU
>- --
>- -------------------------------
>Josh Thompson
>VCL Developer
>North Carolina State University
>
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>
>All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which
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Re: Shibboleth user group creation and managment
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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Al,
There were not many changes to the code related to Shibboleth. It sounds like
Shibboleth may not be passing the correct affiliation information for the
student user to the VCL web code. You can create a file in vcl/shibauth named
shibdata.php with the following in it to see what is getting passed to the VCL
code by Shibboleth:
<?php
print "<pre>";
print_r($_SERVER);
print "</pre>";
}
?>
Then, open https://your.vcl.site/vcl/shibauth/shibdata.php with the
problematic user logged in to see if anything is set for [affiliation]. If
you do not, or the field is just an empty string, then VCL is not getting the
data from Shibboleth.
Josh
On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:06:34 PM Evelio Quiros wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We just upgraded our 2.2.1 installation to 2.3.
>
> Before update, students were able to login and be put into a
> "shib-student" group.
> VCL would have created the group on first login.
> But after the upgrade, students can still login, but the VCL did not
> create the shib-student group.
>
> I added the group manually to the database as a federated group, but
> student logins are not being put into it.
>
> Staff can login using Shibboleth, and they are put into the shib-staff
> group ok.
>
> Did something change in the way VCL handles Shibboleth with the new
> version ?
> Did I forget to copy over a config from the old site ?
>
> Thanks,
> Al Q
> FIU
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VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
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FW: Shibboleth user group creation and managment
Posted by Evelio Quiros <ev...@fiu.edu>.
>Hello All,
>
>We just upgraded our 2.2.1 installation to 2.3.
>
>Before update, students were able to login and be put into a
>"shib-student" group.
>VCL would have created the group on first login.
>But after the upgrade, students can still login, but the VCL did not
>create the shib-student group.
>
>I added the group manually to the database as a federated group, but
>student logins are not being put into it.
>
>Staff can login using Shibboleth, and they are put into the shib-staff
>group ok.
>
>Did something change in the way VCL handles Shibboleth with the new
>version ?
>Did I forget to copy over a config from the old site ?
>
>Thanks,
>Al Q
>FIU
>
Shibboleth user group creation and managment
Posted by Evelio Quiros <ev...@fiu.edu>.
Hello All,
We just upgraded our 2.2.1 installation to 2.3.
Before update, students were able to login and be put into a
"shib-student" group.
VCL would have created the group on first login.
But after the upgrade, students can still login, but the VCL did not
create the shib-student group.
I added the group manually to the database as a federated group, but
student logins are not being put into it.
Staff can login using Shibboleth, and they are put into the shib-staff
group ok.
Did something change in the way VCL handles Shibboleth with the new
version ?
Did I forget to copy over a config from the old site ?
Thanks,
Al Q
FIU
Re: Image captures, loads, but not available for reservation
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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The wiki documentation is definitely not organized well. We're trying to get
things organized much better in the new CMS:
http://vcl.apache.org
Josh
On Monday, July 30, 2012 5:30:15 PM Michael Jinks wrote:
> This is fixed. I'd been looking for documentation on accounts and
> privileges in the "For Administrators" section; found a short while ago
> that its in the "For Users" area instead. A quick read through:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/for-vcl-users.html#ForVCLUsers-Privileges
>
> ...cleared up a lot of stuff that wasn't obvious from trying to feel my
> way through the users/groups/privileges pages in the UI.
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:34:58PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote:
> > Thanks Josh.
> >
> > We actually got past part of this issue on our own; the "associate
> > image with a Group" step had been left out.
> >
> > Now we can deploy reliably and reserve as the admin user, but non-admin
> > users, even with full admin privileges switched on, can't see any
> > images. Clearly there's something we haven't done to set up the user
> > correctly.
> >
> > I did find isAvailable while working my way through the code to try to
> > figure out what's missing. I was disappointed to find that it returns
> > useful codes for a VCL system in maintenance mode, or an over-subscribed
> > image, but for something like six or seven other error conditions it
> > just throws "0", none available, with no way to tell why, so I've been
> > adding debug code to try to figure out which tests are failing in our
> > case. That's ongoing.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:21:20AM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote:
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> > >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > Have a look at this thread. This is a common enough prolem that I'll
> > > try to write it up on our new CMS.
> > >
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-user@incubator.apache.org/msg01398.html
> > >
> > > Josh
> > >
> > > On Friday, July 27, 2012 10:56:17 PM Michael Jinks wrote:
> > > > I have a Linux template, named "linux_template_v23_", that mostly
> > > > works
> > > > but has a fatal bug in the config file for its public network
> > > > interface.
> > > > So, I built and captured a new, corrrected build, called
> > > > "linux_template_26_".
> > > >
> > > > So far so good. The new build captured successfully, and I can select
> > > > one of my VM definitions, load the new image, and that succeeds, with
> > > > the VM ending up marked "Available" in the database, accessable from
> > > > the
> > > > net and so on.
> > > >
> > > > The trouble comes when I try to select the new image in the
> > > > reservations
> > > > interface. The name appears in the dropdown, but when I select it the
> > > > UI immediately prints a red line, "Selection not currently available".
> > > > The old profile doesn't have that problem.
> > > >
> > > > I can't think what I did differently for the older template. I've
> > > > looked all over the UI, plus a couple of the backing tables, and I
> > > > can't
> > > > find any difference between the two templates that explains why one is
> > > > available and the other isn't.
> > > >
> > > > In requests.php I find:
> > > > $rc = isAvailable($images, $imageid, $imagerevisionid, $start,
> > > >
> > > > $end); [...]
> > > >
> > > > if($rc < 1) {
> > > >
> > > > print "'<font color=red>Selection not currently
> > > >
> > > > available</font>'; "; print "if(dojo.byId('newsubmit'))
> > > > dojo.byId('newsubmit').value = 'View Time Table';";
> > > >
> > > > ...and in utils I find that the isAvailable function checks a lot of
> > > > conditions before returning an integer less than 1 on error, so the
> > > > cause of that message could be a few different things.
> > > >
> > > > A few more items, maybe relevant: Currently I have VM computers
> > > > defined
> > > > and available, associated with a working ESX host, both with and
> > > > without
> > > > the new template in their currentimage field.
> > > >
> > > > When I reload the image on a VM, that seems to go flawlessly, best
> > > > we've
> > > > seen since we started this project: the VM boots, gets its networking
> > > > right, accepts SSH from the management node and gets its post-boot
> > > > reconfiguration done. I'm logged into one now and everything looks
> > > > just
> > > > fine. But, not currently available.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas where to look next? I'm stumped.
> > >
> > > - --
> > > - -------------------------------
> > > Josh Thompson
> > > VCL Developer
> > > North Carolina State University
> > >
> > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
> > >
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Re: Image captures, loads, but not available for reservation
Posted by Michael Jinks <mj...@uchicago.edu>.
This is fixed. I'd been looking for documentation on accounts and
privileges in the "For Administrators" section; found a short while ago
that its in the "For Users" area instead. A quick read through:
https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/for-vcl-users.html#ForVCLUsers-Privileges
...cleared up a lot of stuff that wasn't obvious from trying to feel my
way through the users/groups/privileges pages in the UI.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:34:58PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Thanks Josh.
>
> We actually got past part of this issue on our own; the "associate
> image with a Group" step had been left out.
>
> Now we can deploy reliably and reserve as the admin user, but non-admin
> users, even with full admin privileges switched on, can't see any
> images. Clearly there's something we haven't done to set up the user
> correctly.
>
> I did find isAvailable while working my way through the code to try to
> figure out what's missing. I was disappointed to find that it returns
> useful codes for a VCL system in maintenance mode, or an over-subscribed
> image, but for something like six or seven other error conditions it
> just throws "0", none available, with no way to tell why, so I've been
> adding debug code to try to figure out which tests are failing in our
> case. That's ongoing.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:21:20AM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote:
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> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Have a look at this thread. This is a common enough prolem that I'll try to
> > write it up on our new CMS.
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-user@incubator.apache.org/msg01398.html
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > On Friday, July 27, 2012 10:56:17 PM Michael Jinks wrote:
> > > I have a Linux template, named "linux_template_v23_", that mostly works
> > > but has a fatal bug in the config file for its public network interface.
> > > So, I built and captured a new, corrrected build, called
> > > "linux_template_26_".
> > >
> > > So far so good. The new build captured successfully, and I can select
> > > one of my VM definitions, load the new image, and that succeeds, with
> > > the VM ending up marked "Available" in the database, accessable from the
> > > net and so on.
> > >
> > > The trouble comes when I try to select the new image in the reservations
> > > interface. The name appears in the dropdown, but when I select it the
> > > UI immediately prints a red line, "Selection not currently available".
> > > The old profile doesn't have that problem.
> > >
> > > I can't think what I did differently for the older template. I've
> > > looked all over the UI, plus a couple of the backing tables, and I can't
> > > find any difference between the two templates that explains why one is
> > > available and the other isn't.
> > >
> > > In requests.php I find:
> > >
> > > $rc = isAvailable($images, $imageid, $imagerevisionid, $start,
> > > $end); [...]
> > > if($rc < 1) {
> > > print "'<font color=red>Selection not currently
> > > available</font>'; "; print "if(dojo.byId('newsubmit'))
> > > dojo.byId('newsubmit').value = 'View Time Table';";
> > >
> > > ...and in utils I find that the isAvailable function checks a lot of
> > > conditions before returning an integer less than 1 on error, so the
> > > cause of that message could be a few different things.
> > >
> > > A few more items, maybe relevant: Currently I have VM computers defined
> > > and available, associated with a working ESX host, both with and without
> > > the new template in their currentimage field.
> > >
> > > When I reload the image on a VM, that seems to go flawlessly, best we've
> > > seen since we started this project: the VM boots, gets its networking
> > > right, accepts SSH from the management node and gets its post-boot
> > > reconfiguration done. I'm logged into one now and everything looks just
> > > fine. But, not currently available.
> > >
> > > Any ideas where to look next? I'm stumped.
> > - --
> > - -------------------------------
> > Josh Thompson
> > VCL Developer
> > North Carolina State University
> >
> > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
> >
> > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which
> > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public
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> Michael Jinks :: mjinks@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688
> University of Chicago IT Services
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University of Chicago IT Services
Re: Image captures, loads, but not available for reservation
Posted by Michael Jinks <mj...@uchicago.edu>.
Thanks Josh.
We actually got past part of this issue on our own; the "associate
image with a Group" step had been left out.
Now we can deploy reliably and reserve as the admin user, but non-admin
users, even with full admin privileges switched on, can't see any
images. Clearly there's something we haven't done to set up the user
correctly.
I did find isAvailable while working my way through the code to try to
figure out what's missing. I was disappointed to find that it returns
useful codes for a VCL system in maintenance mode, or an over-subscribed
image, but for something like six or seven other error conditions it
just throws "0", none available, with no way to tell why, so I've been
adding debug code to try to figure out which tests are failing in our
case. That's ongoing.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:21:20AM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Michael,
>
> Have a look at this thread. This is a common enough prolem that I'll try to
> write it up on our new CMS.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-user@incubator.apache.org/msg01398.html
>
> Josh
>
> On Friday, July 27, 2012 10:56:17 PM Michael Jinks wrote:
> > I have a Linux template, named "linux_template_v23_", that mostly works
> > but has a fatal bug in the config file for its public network interface.
> > So, I built and captured a new, corrrected build, called
> > "linux_template_26_".
> >
> > So far so good. The new build captured successfully, and I can select
> > one of my VM definitions, load the new image, and that succeeds, with
> > the VM ending up marked "Available" in the database, accessable from the
> > net and so on.
> >
> > The trouble comes when I try to select the new image in the reservations
> > interface. The name appears in the dropdown, but when I select it the
> > UI immediately prints a red line, "Selection not currently available".
> > The old profile doesn't have that problem.
> >
> > I can't think what I did differently for the older template. I've
> > looked all over the UI, plus a couple of the backing tables, and I can't
> > find any difference between the two templates that explains why one is
> > available and the other isn't.
> >
> > In requests.php I find:
> >
> > $rc = isAvailable($images, $imageid, $imagerevisionid, $start,
> > $end); [...]
> > if($rc < 1) {
> > print "'<font color=red>Selection not currently
> > available</font>'; "; print "if(dojo.byId('newsubmit'))
> > dojo.byId('newsubmit').value = 'View Time Table';";
> >
> > ...and in utils I find that the isAvailable function checks a lot of
> > conditions before returning an integer less than 1 on error, so the
> > cause of that message could be a few different things.
> >
> > A few more items, maybe relevant: Currently I have VM computers defined
> > and available, associated with a working ESX host, both with and without
> > the new template in their currentimage field.
> >
> > When I reload the image on a VM, that seems to go flawlessly, best we've
> > seen since we started this project: the VM boots, gets its networking
> > right, accepts SSH from the management node and gets its post-boot
> > reconfiguration done. I'm logged into one now and everything looks just
> > fine. But, not currently available.
> >
> > Any ideas where to look next? I'm stumped.
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Michael Jinks :: mjinks@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688
University of Chicago IT Services
Re: Image captures, loads, but not available for reservation
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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Michael,
Have a look at this thread. This is a common enough prolem that I'll try to
write it up on our new CMS.
http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-user@incubator.apache.org/msg01398.html
Josh
On Friday, July 27, 2012 10:56:17 PM Michael Jinks wrote:
> I have a Linux template, named "linux_template_v23_", that mostly works
> but has a fatal bug in the config file for its public network interface.
> So, I built and captured a new, corrrected build, called
> "linux_template_26_".
>
> So far so good. The new build captured successfully, and I can select
> one of my VM definitions, load the new image, and that succeeds, with
> the VM ending up marked "Available" in the database, accessable from the
> net and so on.
>
> The trouble comes when I try to select the new image in the reservations
> interface. The name appears in the dropdown, but when I select it the
> UI immediately prints a red line, "Selection not currently available".
> The old profile doesn't have that problem.
>
> I can't think what I did differently for the older template. I've
> looked all over the UI, plus a couple of the backing tables, and I can't
> find any difference between the two templates that explains why one is
> available and the other isn't.
>
> In requests.php I find:
>
> $rc = isAvailable($images, $imageid, $imagerevisionid, $start,
> $end); [...]
> if($rc < 1) {
> print "'<font color=red>Selection not currently
> available</font>'; "; print "if(dojo.byId('newsubmit'))
> dojo.byId('newsubmit').value = 'View Time Table';";
>
> ...and in utils I find that the isAvailable function checks a lot of
> conditions before returning an integer less than 1 on error, so the
> cause of that message could be a few different things.
>
> A few more items, maybe relevant: Currently I have VM computers defined
> and available, associated with a working ESX host, both with and without
> the new template in their currentimage field.
>
> When I reload the image on a VM, that seems to go flawlessly, best we've
> seen since we started this project: the VM boots, gets its networking
> right, accepts SSH from the management node and gets its post-boot
> reconfiguration done. I'm logged into one now and everything looks just
> fine. But, not currently available.
>
> Any ideas where to look next? I'm stumped.
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Josh Thompson
VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
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