VM status keeps ACTIVE after its nova-compute host is powered off

Hi Kimi,

Actually, Nova will check the VMs' status in the host every 60 minutes. But the precondition is nova-compute in the host is running.

Because you power off the host, so no process will check the VM in this hosts. In my option, you should setup another service like (nagios, zabbix) to monitor the hosts' status.

Hoping help you.

Hi, Tiantian

Yes, external monitor is one way. But maybe nova server should be able to know the we lost the host, and do something with VM status, not just showing they are ACTIVE.

In this case, I'm agree with you.

Nova has ability to monitor the nova-compute's status. You can have a try: nova service-list
the response will like:
+------------------+-------------+----------+---------+-------+----------------------------+
| Binary | Host | Zone | Status | State | Updated_at |
+------------------+-------------+----------+---------+-------+----------------------------+
| nova-conductor | tt-devstack | internal | enabled | up | 2013-08-07T06:30:16.000000 |
| nova-compute | tt-devstack | az2,az | enabled | down | 2013-07-29T10:31:12.000000 |
| nova-cert | tt-devstack | internal | enabled | up | 2013-08-07T06:30:18.000000 |
| nova-network | tt-devstack | internal | enabled | up | 2013-08-07T06:30:10.000000 |
| nova-scheduler | tt-devstack | internal | enabled | up | 2013-08-07T06:30:16.000000 |
| nova-consoleauth | tt-devstack | internal | enabled | up | 2013-08-07T06:30:13.000000 |
+------------------+-------------+----------+---------+-------+----------------------------+

But if Nova can set the VM's status in the dead host to some thing like 'ERROR' will be good.
Maybe you can post the idea to mailist for more discuss :)

Yes, agrees.

I'll post to mailing list.

Has this issue been fixed and in which openstack version?

Thanks!

No fix yet, at the moment.

thanks for your answer.