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| author | Sean Dague <sean@dague.net> | 2017-08-10 09:34:13 -0400 |
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| committer | melanie witt <melwittt@gmail.com> | 2018-08-17 01:41:31 +0000 |
| commit | 8835198b8d09e9a69ea83741fdb1579a98019b51 (patch) | |
| tree | e63549f370d370802c16fc47e35b127759c60a99 /api-ref/source/os-services.inc | |
| parent | df3dd2b5c7f63ca69c9fb5d95ab3c496f729b0d0 (diff) | |
| download | nova-8835198b8d09e9a69ea83741fdb1579a98019b51.tar.gz | |
Update api-guide and api-ref to be clear about forced-down
Closes-Bug: #1691871
Related-Bug: #1784826
Change-Id: Ifc6f1549d88a1b7d9f6e25c962c8a15dd8e180fb
Diffstat (limited to 'api-ref/source/os-services.inc')
| -rw-r--r-- | api-ref/source/os-services.inc | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/api-ref/source/os-services.inc b/api-ref/source/os-services.inc index 0f2c5cbc27..43659864b7 100644 --- a/api-ref/source/os-services.inc +++ b/api-ref/source/os-services.inc @@ -195,7 +195,16 @@ Update Forced Down .. rest_method:: PUT /os-services/force-down -Set or unset ``forced_down`` flag for the service. +Set or unset ``forced_down`` flag for the service. ``forced_down`` is a manual +override to tell nova that the service in question has been fenced manually by +the operations team (either hard powered off, or network unplugged). That +signals that it is safe to proceed with ``evacuate`` or other operations that +nova has safety checks to prevent for hosts that are up. + +.. warning:: + + Setting a service forced down without completely fencing it will likely + result in the corruption of VMs on that host. Action ``force-down`` available as of microversion 2.11. |