April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
The OpenStack Compute service is one of the most significant services. It provides a hypervisor to run virtual machines.
By default, this service stores its log files for each in /var/log/nova. For example, nova-compute.log is the log for the nova-compute service. You can set the following options to format log strings for the nova.log module in the nova.conf file:
logging_context_format_stringlogging_default_format_stringlogging_debug_format_suffix # if debug logging is enabled
For enabling logging, include the logfile option in the nova.conf file to enable logging. Alternatively you can set use_syslog = 1 so that the nova daemon logs to syslog.
The first steps in ensuring that the Compute service is running ...