[Operations] 'nova list' doesn't show enough information.

[James Penick]

When debugging user issues with various VMs Openstack operators need the ability to know (at a glance) the compute node for a given VM. Right now we have to either run 'nova show' on every VM, and try to compile information that way, or write a tool to do the DB query for us (Which many of us have done, but it's a workaround.)

Can someone please add compute node to the output of nova-list?

Even better, i'd like to be able to add other columns with a flag

eg: nova list --all_tenants --show flavor,task_state,instance_name

[Sam Morrison (sorrison)]

Would be good to be able to provide filters to it as well if you're an admin.

eg: nova list --filter tenant=<tenant_id> --filter flavour=<flavour>

[Andrew Glen-Young (aglenyoung)]

@Sam

'nova list --flavor=<flavor_id>' already works today.

I'd agree that tenant and perhaps arbitrary filters as originally requested would be good to have.

[Stuart Stent (stuart-stent)]

task_state would be extremely helpfully for those running LVM backed VMs, as the VM state = Active even when task state is deleting.

[Tiantian Gao (gtt116)]

I believe the bug should belong to python-novaclient.
when we type "nova list", novaclient make request to "GET http://node:8774/v2/{tenant}/servers/detail". Actually novaclient catch all the information about instances, which include task_state, flavor_id , etc.
So we only need to modify python-novaclient to fix the bug.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/21494

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/21494
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/e8001968607492218cce4c2a408e54836f627212
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit e8001968607492218cce4c2a408e54836f627212
Author: Kieran Spear <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Feb 7 19:24:11 2013 +1100

    Support showing extra fields in server list

    Adds a --fields argument that sets the fields to display.
    ID is always displayed.

    Fixes bug #1076473

    Change-Id: If3462e6a490ea16da4834a7f40f96b111c9e8227

[Russell Bryant (russellb)]

It looks like this one was resolved by changing novaclient, so closing out for nova.