# Resource State Configuration

## Overview

Vitrage retrieves information from diverse data-sources regarding resources in the cloud, and stores and combines this information into a unified system model. An important property of a resource is its state. This state can be used both in the Vitrage templates to trigger actions, and in the Horizon UI for color-coding purposes. Therefore, it is important that within the Vitrage data model, state names are aggregated and normalized.

Since each data-source might represent state differently, for each data-source we can supply it’s own mapping to the aggregated state supported in Vitrage. This way we can know which state is more important. In addition we also normalize the states for the horizon UI (called vitrage_operational_state) in order for the UI to know what color to show in Horizon. This page explains how to handle this mapping for a given data-source.

## Configure Access to Resource State

The resource state configuration is handled via config files. The location of these files can be determined in `/etc/vitrage/vitrage.conf`. Under the [entity_graph] section, set:

Name | Description | Default Value
--- | --- | ---
datasources_values_dir | Directory path from where to load the values configurations | /etc/vitrage/datasources_values/

## Configure Resource State Mapping

The resource state configuration files configure how the state of each resource is normalized. Some guidelines for creating a config file:

- Normalized state values, to which states should be mapped, can be found in normalized_resource_state.py (OperationalResourceState class).

- Each normalized state also comes with a priority, so that if a resource is given different states from different sources (e.g., a host state set both by nagios and Vitrage), the state with the highest priority will be used as the aggregated state.

- The UNRECOGNIZED state will be used for states with no corresponding normalized state. This state must appear in the config file.

- The config file is in YAML format.

- The config filename must be <datasource name>.yaml, for the relevant datasource.

- Defining a config file for each datasource is recommended, but not mandatory. Datasources with no such configuration will use the values as-is.

Once the file is modified, you must restart vitrage-graph service to load the changes.

### Default Configuration

Default configurations for resource states will be installed with Vitrage for all the pre-packaged data-sources.

### Format

    category: RESOURCE
    values:
      - aggregated values:
          priority: <Resource state priority - an integer>
          original values:
            - name: <Original resource state name>
              operational_value: <normalized resource state - from OperationalResourceState class>
            - name: ... # can list several states for one aggregation
      - aggregated values:
          priority: ... # can list several aggregated states
          ...
    ...

### Example

The following file will map resource states.

For aggregated state with priority 40 we have 4 states and each one of them is mapped to operational severity ERROR.

For aggregated state with priority 30 we have 6 states and each one of them is mapped to operational severity TRANSIENT, etc…

    category: RESOURCE
      values:
        - aggregated values:
            priority: 40
            original values:
              - name: ERROR
                operational_value: ERROR
              - name: ERROR_DELETING
                operational_value: ERROR
              - name: ERROR_RESTORING
                operational_value: ERROR
              - name: ERROR_EXTENDING
                operational_value: ERROR
        - aggregated values:
            priority: 30
            original values:
              - name: CREATING
                operational_value: TRANSIENT
              - name: ATTACHING
                operational_value: TRANSIENT
              - name: DELETING
                operational_value: TRANSIENT
              - name: RESTORING-BACKUP
                operational_value: TRANSIENT
              - name: BACKING-UP
                operational_value: TRANSIENT
              - name: DETACHING
                operational_value: TRANSIENT
        - aggregated values:
            priority: 20
            original values:
              - name: SUBOPTIMAL
                operational_value: SUBOPTIMAL
        - aggregated values:
            priority: 10
            original values:
              - name: AVAILABLE
                operational_value: OK
              - name: IN-USE
                operational_value: OK

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