Bonded interface viewing support in XO
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Hello,
Does XenOrchestra have a way to view existing bonded network interfaces?
Looking both at the pool and host, I can see the "bond0" interface in the list, but there is no way to list which physical interfaces are making up the bond and neither what kind of bond it is. I had to go to the CLI for this.
Just wondering if I'm not looking at the right place or if this is just something on your to-do list.
Thanks,
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@voipdude Agree'd. This would be a nice interface update.
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That's already there. There's an eye button with an hover text: "Show PIFs".
edit: I'm not sure to fully understand what's missing exactly, can you be more specific?
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@olivierlambert said in Bonded interface viewing support in XO:
That's already there. There's an eye button with an hover text: "Show PIFs".
edit: I'm not sure to fully understand what's missing exactly, can you be more specific?
In my case, pressing on this button just shows the bond interface and not what makes up the bond. See screenshot:
Edit: Sorry, realized that you wanted to understand what it's missing.
For me, it should show what type of bond it is (ex: in my case it's Active-Passive) as well as the physical interfaces that make it up (Ex: in my case bond0 is eth4 and eth5 bonded together).
Even better would be to be able to even edit the bond (ex: change up interfaces in case something fails), but that might be a Xen limitation. -
If you can get this info via
xeCLI, then we should have them in XO too
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@voipdude said in Bonded interface viewing support in XO:
@olivierlambert said in Bonded interface viewing support in XO:
That's already there. There's an eye button with an hover text: "Show PIFs".
edit: I'm not sure to fully understand what's missing exactly, can you be more specific?
In my case, pressing on this button just shows the bond interface and not what makes up the bond. See screenshot:
Edit: Sorry, realized that you wanted to understand what it's missing.
For me, it should show what type of bond it is (ex: in my case it's Active-Passive) as well as the physical interfaces that make it up (Ex: in my case bond0 is eth4 and eth5 bonded together).
Even better would be to be able to even edit the bond (ex: change up interfaces in case something fails), but that might be a Xen limitation.At the very least, it would be extremely useful to be able to change the TYPE of bond (its easy to mis-configure this, and its annoying to have to change via CLI).
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(I have snipped some of the output for brevety)
Yes, so this command shows the interfaces that are participating in the bond:
# xe bond-list uuid ( RO) : 5f470b0a-f59e-5c34-69a5-4676719da6d6 master ( RO): 8d0b83b2-4336-c7a5-f84f-be0d6a49064f slaves ( RO): 3598380c-3da3-c096-7a84-2c4ac2b280ee; 7188d716-cf0a-4e34-5ab1-5ddae4e6fe28But then we need to find out which UUID corresponds to which interface by doing a pif-list:
# xe pif-list uuid ( RO) : 8d0b83b2-4336-c7a5-f84f-be0d6a49064f device ( RO): bond0 currently-attached ( RO): true VLAN ( RO): -1 network-uuid ( RO): f5f7ee91-dcc9-104e-c696-1e74d7ddedb1 uuid ( RO) : 3598380c-3da3-c096-7a84-2c4ac2b280ee device ( RO): eth4 currently-attached ( RO): false VLAN ( RO): -1 network-uuid ( RO): 192daa64-2df8-41a3-9849-8f403104b3fe uuid ( RO) : 7188d716-cf0a-4e34-5ab1-5ddae4e6fe28 device ( RO): eth5 currently-attached ( RO): false VLAN ( RO): -1 network-uuid ( RO): 4f7a5c61-9bd6-dbb5-b34a-3bfe46ced469So we can see eth4 and eth5 are part of bond0.
I then can find out what kind of bond it is with this command:
# ovs-appctl bond/list bond type recircID slaves bond0 active-backup 0 eth4, eth5Thanks,
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Sadly, we won't have access to ovs command. But maybe the whole bond record?
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@olivierlambert Yup, you're right! This command gives the bond type:
# xe bond-param-list uuid=5f470b0a-f59e-5c34-69a5-4676719da6d6 uuid ( RO) : 5f470b0a-f59e-5c34-69a5-4676719da6d6 master ( RO): 8d0b83b2-4336-c7a5-f84f-be0d6a49064f slaves ( RO): 3598380c-3da3-c096-7a84-2c4ac2b280ee; 7188d716-cf0a-4e34-5ab1-5ddae4e6fe28 mode ( RO): active-backup properties (MRO): primary-slave ( RO): 3598380c-3da3-c096-7a84-2c4ac2b280ee links-up ( RO): 2 auto-update-mac ( RO): true -
Okay so could you recap what info you'd like, from which source (xe command) and where?
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In the interfaces list, each interface that is bonded should have this info:
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The bond device name and network
This is already present today in XO, so no changes here. -
The type of bond
Derived from xe bond-list and then xe bond-param-list uuid=XXXX -
The underlying interfaces (ex: eth0, eth1) that are participating in the bond
Derived from xe bond-list and then the slave UUIDs references to the device names from xe pif-list
In terms of "where", it should be in either Pool > Network or Pool > Host > Network (or both, still not sure the difference between viewing networks in the pool or host)
And as @TheNorthernLight mentioned, it would be great to be able to modify bonds (ex: remove or add or change the underlying interfaces that are in the bond). I don't have XenCenter handy to test if that's a thing, it might be not be possible to modify existing bonds.
Thanks!
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@fohdeesha what do you think? If it sounds reasonable, we should create a Github issue with this
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@olivierlambert I think the request makes sense, it would be really helpful to see at a quick glance what type of bond it is and what are the bond members (especially for support)
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@olivierlambert Not to dig up an old thread but was this ever added? I was looking around and wasn't able to find it anywhere.
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You can check if there's an Github issue opened for that. If yes, you can track the status. If not, there's little chance it would be done
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Sorry for poking the bear.
Just want to point out (in a positive way as much as possible), that I cannot find an issue related to this one on a Github and as we are trying to migrate our env onto XCP-ng I cannot find inside XOA webGUI the way to check which network interfaces (effectively PIFs eth0 or eth1 in our case) are inside a bond we've created.
There is a way to check that from "xe" command line (the commands are within this thread, few posts above, thank you @VoipDude).
Having this information provided in XOA webGUI would be something nice and useful (for example to confirm that eveyrthing is configured as it should be). Digging this up with "xe" commands took me some time and finding those right commands on the internet with explanation isn't the easiest thing.
As additional what I've spotted it is also hard to distinguish between "master bond" and "pool-wide networks" which are created based on "master bond". (I don't think it's possible from XOA webGUI to get that information).
To me it looks like the only way to distinguish it for now is this:
xe pif-list params=allAbove will give us list of all PIFs with all params. We need to look for an entry where "bond-master-of" is NOT empty AND at the same time if "device" is the one we are looking for AND that the "network-name-label" is the one we are looking for : - )
bond-master-of ( RO): **a0753427-b3f1-52bc-1c0e-2b6481e8701e**Next step is:
xe bond-param-list uuid=**a0753427-b3f1-52bc-1c0e-2b6481e8701e**Above will give us UUIDs of interfaces (inside the "master bond") but again we will have to use "xe pif-list" to find what "network-name-labels" hides under UUIDs to get info if those are PIFs eth0 and eth1.
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Ping @lsouai-vates
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@piotrlotr1
I'm changing my mind regarding point 2.From XOA webGUI there is a way to distinguish between "master bond" and "pool-wide networks" created based on "master bond".
On pool level, when checking "Network" tab the master bond is marked with "Bonded" icon next to it.
It is NOT so obvious from "host" level as there is no "Bonded" icon next to the "master bond".
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I agree this is something that would be very useful to have in the WebUI when reviewing pool config to ensure everything is setup properly. It may be too late for XO5 but perhaps something to be added in XO6? I see there has been lots of work happening on the network tab in XO6 currently from looking at the github.
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