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diff --git a/doc/source/cli/validator.rst b/doc/source/cli/validator.rst
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--- a/doc/source/cli/validator.rst
+++ b/doc/source/cli/validator.rst
@@ -28,15 +28,17 @@ location of the sample config generator configuration file, while
``--input-file`` should point at the location of the configuration file to be
validated.
-Here's an example of using the validator on Nova as installed by Devstack::
+Here's an example of using the validator on Nova as installed by Devstack (with
+the option [foo]/bar added to demonstrate a failure)::
$ oslo-config-validator --config-file /opt/stack/nova/etc/nova/nova-config-generator.conf --input-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/user_domain_name not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/password not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/project_domain_name not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/project_name not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/username not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/auth_url not found
+ ERROR:root:foo/bar not found
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "project_domain_name" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "project_name" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "user_domain_name" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "password" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "username" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "auth_url" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
Machine-Readable Sample Config
------------------------------
@@ -52,15 +54,17 @@ This file is then passed to the validator with ``--opt-data``, along with the
config file to validated in ``--input-file`` as above.
Here's an example of using the validator on Nova as installed by Devstack, with
-a sample config file ``config-data.yaml`` created by the config generator::
+a sample config file ``config-data.yaml`` created by the config generator (with
+the option [foo]/bar added to demonstrate a failure)::
$ oslo-config-validator --opt-data config-data.yaml --input-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/username not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/project_domain_name not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/user_domain_name not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/project_name not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/password not found
- ERROR:root:keystone_authtoken/auth_url not found
+ ERROR:root:foo/bar not found
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "project_domain_name" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "project_name" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "user_domain_name" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "password" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "username" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
+ INFO:root:Ignoring missing option "auth_url" from group "keystone_authtoken" because the group is known to have incomplete sample config data and thus cannot be validated properly.
Handling Dynamic Groups
-----------------------
@@ -70,3 +74,7 @@ configuration. This is problematic for the validator because these groups won't
be present in the sample config data. The ``--exclude-group`` option for the
validator can be used to ignore such groups and allow the other options in a
config file to be validated normally.
+
+.. note:: The ``keystone_authtoken`` group is always ignored because of the
+ unusual way the options from that library are generated. The sample
+ configuration data is known to be incomplete as a result.