Cli

openqa-mq is a small CLI tool that receives openQA related events from RabbitMQ. It is part of the openqa-mon packages and will work for OSD and for OOO.

I recently automated the installation of updates on my openQA development instance. The goal was to make the instance updates itself over night, but only if it is idle, i.e. there are no running jobs. Sometimes when I’m busy, the instance needs to work overnight and despite openQA being able to restart cancelled jobs from a reboot, I prefer to avoid situations where this might result in problems in times, where I really can’t have that.

The openqa-revtui tool is a neat CLI utility for helping you review openQA jobs and job groups. It is part of the openqa-mon project, which has grown in the last years and now consists on more than the job monitoring tool itself.

Symptom

When posting a job using , you see an error message of the following kind:

$ openqa-cli api -X POST isos ...
403 Forbidden
Asset download requested but no domains passlisted! Set download_domains.

Solution

In this blog post I present you a small script, which can help you to remove empty job groups from your own openQA instance. This is helpful if you have a development instance with a lot of job groups, that you never use. This script can help you to tidy the list of dangling job groups.

Checkout the new openqa-cli cheat sheet page where I start to collect some useful “how do I do …” snippets for the openQA CLI utility openqa-cli.

openqa-mon is a little command-line utility to monitor one or multiple openQA jobs for their status. This tool is useful if you want to live monitor a handful of jobs closely e.g. for verification runs.