Cloudstack enhancement requests
I have installed a version of Device42 to do a test run on Cloudstack and after the first run I have a few remarks:
- thanks for adding the support, it reads loads of information from cloudstack and adds it to Device42
- it discovers the hypervisors themselves, which is great. Could storage capacity also be added? As it's retrievable through the cloudstack api.
- It finds the virtual machines, and finds cpu, memory, ip, instance location. Which is great. It would be nice if HD size would also be registered for the virtual machines (based on allocated size).
- Virtual Machines are created on instance name, while everyone works with the virtual machine name. The instance name is nice to have, but the virtual machine name itself is easier to have. The instance name is only for technicians for debugging (could potentially be set in the alias area).
- Virtual Subtype is set to KVM, which is great! As we can make filter on where a system comes from
- extended debugging does show which systems were added, or not. That's the only information which is shown. I was expecting more information. This for for instance determining if the customer information is gathered (from the account name)
- I'd like to request these options
-- to strip the domain from the virtual machines/hypervisors found
-- to give preference to hostname instead of instance_id
-- the option to add the instance_id as alias
-- the option to add customer information based on the account the vm is created at (maybe it's already there, but the information is not added due to the customer not being present in device42. I can't make it up from the extended logging if its tried)
-- the option to set a virtual machine to a different service level and out of service instead of direct removal
This is what I bumped into so far. Tnx for the work already done on this, the suggested modifications above would be much appreciated.
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I'd like to add another remark:
- Thanks for registering the hypervisors not as virtual machines anymore. Unfortunately they end up as unknown devices now as the hardware model is not added
- The list of virtual machines imported from the cloudstack API is exactly 1000 vms. We have more vms in cloudstack and would like to have them imported as well. The pages option probably needs to be used in the api call to get the rest of the vms on the list. (http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/dev.html#maximum-result-pages-returned)
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