Host name not shown in "Volumes" page

[Marco CONSONNI]

This is not necessarily a bug; it's an improvement suggestion.

I log in as cloud administrator and go to the "Syspanel" (the page that is shown to administrators only).

If i visit the "Instances" page and, for each running instance, I get the following information:

-- Project Name: the project the instance belongs to
-- Host: the physical machine where the instance is running
-- Instance Name: the name of the instance

etc...

On the other hand, if I visit "Volumes" I don't get "Host" information (the name where the physical space is allocated).
This piece of information is available in DB (column host of table volumes in cinder DB).

As admin, I find this piece of information (the host were an object lives) rather useful, therefore I think it should be displayed both for instances and volumes.

As a former UI designer I know that people are never happy of what you display (or how you display), therefore take this as a humble opinion, not a bug report.

[. . (deactivatedaccount51533-deactivatedaccount)]

The GET volume/{volume_id} API does not return the host.

[Gabriel Hurley (gabriel-hurley)]

I don't believe this is returned via the API currently, but that would be nice, especially for an admin.

[John Griffith (john-griffith)]

I agree Gabriel, that would be a handy feature and it makes sense to provide it similar ot what Nova does. As you've mentioned it's not necessarily a bug currently, but is an *omission*.

[James King (jking-6)]

I have a patch ready for review, I just have to get through the contributor agreements, etc and get Gerrit to accept my patch...

[James King (jking-6)]

in code review

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/14993

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/14993
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/826c4520d093f5e0809a08e10b5d18bf69adc698
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 826c4520d093f5e0809a08e10b5d18bf69adc698
Author: Brian Waldon <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Oct 27 15:36:30 2012 -0700

    Add VolumeHostAttribute API extension

    Expose the host on which a volume resides through a new API
    extension. This is only presented to Admins by default. This
    can be controlled with the 'volume_host_attribute' policy
    rule.

    Fixes bug 1035350.

    Change-Id: I0a74a0dfbd78e853219150fbe0d3fba77c6f9bb6

[Brian Waldon (bcwaldon)]

Horizon bug fixed by Gabriel Hurley - commit 069c3f545ab497284a5fea034ef7d899f3902fa2

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/15001/