Appendix A. Log Files

Contents

A.1. On the Administration Server
A.2. On All Other Crowbar Nodes
A.3. On the Controller Node
A.4. On Compute Nodes
A.5. On Nodes with Ceph Barclamp

Find a list of log files below, sorted according to the nodes where they can be found.

A.1. On the Administration Server

  • Crowbar Web Interface: /opt/dell/crowbar_framework/log/production.log

  • Chef Web Interface: /var/log/chef/webui.log

  • Chef server: /var/log/chef/server.log

  • Chef expander: /var/log/chef/expander.log

  • Chef client (for the Administration Server only): /var/log/chef/client.log

  • Apache SOLR (Chef's search server): /var/log/chef/solr.log

  • HTTP (AutoYaST) installation server for provisioner Barclamp: /var/log/apache2/provisioner-{access,error}_log

  • Default SUSE log files: /var/log/messages, /var/log/zypper.log etc.

  • Syslogs for all nodes: /var/log/nodes/*.log (these are collected via remote syslogging)

  • Log file from mirroring SMT repositories (optional): /var/log/smt/smt-mirror.log

  • Other client node log files saved on the Administration Server:

    • /install-logs/h*.log: Initial Chef client run on PXE-booted nodes prior to discovery by Crowbar.

    • /opt/dell/crowbar_framework/log/d*.log: Output from Chef client when proposals are applied to nodes. This is the first place to look if a Barclamp proposal fails to apply.

A.2. On All Other Crowbar Nodes

Logs for when the node registers with the Administration Server:

  • /var/log/crowbar-join.errlog

  • /var/log/crowbar-join-$TOPIC.{log,err}: STDOUT/STDERR from running commands associated with $TOPIC when the node joins the Crowbar cluster. $TOPIC can be:

    • zypper: package management activity

    • ifup: network configuration activity

    • Chef: Chef client activity

    • time: starting of ntp client

  • Chef client log: /var/log/chef/client.log

  • Default SUSE log files: /var/log/messages, /var/log/zypper.log etc.

A.3. On the Controller Node

  • /var/log/keystone/keystone.log: OpenStack authentication, etc.

  • /var/log/rabbitmq/*: logs for RabbitMQ, used by OpenStack for handling message queues

  • /var/log/nova/: various logs relating to Nova services:

    • api.log

    • consoleauth.log

    • network.log

    • nova-manage.log

    • scheduler.log

    • volume.log

  • /var/log/apache2/openstack-dashboard-*: Logs for the SUSE Cloud Dashboard

A.4. On Compute Nodes

/var/log/nova/: various logs relating to Nova services:

  • compute.log

  • nova-manage.log

A.5. On Nodes with Ceph Barclamp

/var/log/ceph/*.log


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