Admin should be able to manually select the active instance of a HA router

[Assaf Muller]

The admin can see where is the active replica of an HA router. Once this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1401095
Is solved, the admin will be able to manually move HA routers from one agent to the next. Combining the two, it gives a decent if not ideal way to move the master by unscheduling it from the master node thereby moving it a backup:

For example if hosts A and B are hosting router R, and router R is active on host A, you can unschedule it from host A, invoking a failover and causing B to become the new active replica. You then schedule it to host A once more and it'll host the router again, this time as standby.

This RFE is about adding the ability to manually move the master state of a router from one agent to another explicitly. I think this can only be done with an API modification, or even a new API verb just for HA routers. I think that any API modifications need a slim spec and an RFE bug is not enough.

[Assaf Muller (amuller)]

Gongysh I updated the bug description since a lot of things have changed since I reported this.

[Kyle Mestery (mestery)]

This looks reasonable to me, I'd be ok with a slim spec as well since it requires an API change.

[yong sheng gong (gongysh)]

ok

[Kyle Mestery (mestery)]

Triaged and approved. Please file a small spec since this requires an API change. Thanks!

[Hong Hui Xiao (xiaohhui)]

I think the description needs update again, based on the discussion at [1]. Or, I will file a new rfe to address the problem.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/257299/

[Armando Migliaccio (armando-migliaccio)]

I'll defer to Assaf. Based on his feedback, this looks like it's being deferred to after Mitaka.

[Carl Baldwin (carl-baldwin)]

I just adjusted the status and tags to reflect what has been discussed on the review [1]. Maybe we need to discuss this again in the drivers team meeting.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/257299/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Carl Baldwin (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/257299
Reason: Abandoning pending discussion with drivers

[Armando Migliaccio (armando-migliaccio)]

Back to the Triaged queue

[Armando Migliaccio (armando-migliaccio)]

Status update:

http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/neutron_drivers/2016/neutron_drivers.2016-02-11-22.00.log.html#l-48

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Change abandoned by Armando Migliaccio (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/257299
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