oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/omicron

log shell commands related to zone config and management

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Description

Problems related to zone management can be really hard to debug when you don't know exactly what happened. e.g., a tool like ipadm might report some unexpected error, but it's hard to know why if you don't know what the previous state was. It'd be really handy if sled agent logged all of the shell commands it runs related to zone configuration and management (zoneadm, but also zfs, zonecfg, svcs/svcfg, networking, etc.) It'd be great to include the exit code or termination signal, stdout, and stderr. A complete log of these commands should make it easier to try to reproduce failures during zone management (e.g., #1880). I assume this wouldn't be prohibitive in terms of performance or disk space because I don't think we'd be doing these at high frequency in production.

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Research direction

Start by tracing sled agent's zone configuration and management command execution, including zoneadm, zfs, zonecfg, svcs/svcfg, and networking commands. Read issue #1880 for the failure context. Done means these commands have complete logs containing the command, exit code or termination signal, stdout, and stderr.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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