Pulp

Currently, pulp-admin status prints a message like this:

[root@localhost ~]# pulp-admin status
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                          Status of the server
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Api Version:           2
Database Connection:
  Connected: True
Known Workers:
  _id:            scheduler@localhost.localdomain
  _ns:            workers
  Last Heartbeat: 2016-10-14T20:10:22Z
  _id:            resource_manager@localhost.localdomain
  _ns:            workers
  Last Heartbeat: 2016-10-14T20:10:23Z
  _id:            reserved_resource_worker-1@localhost.localdomain
  _ns:            workers
  Last Heartbeat: 2016-10-14T20:10:23Z
  _id:            reserved_resource_worker-0@localhost.localdomain
  _ns:            workers
  Last Heartbeat: 2016-10-14T20:10:24Z
Messaging Connection:
  Connected: True
Versions:
  Platform Version: 2.10.1a1

The "Messaging Connection" section tells whether the consumer message bus is connected, and it corresponds to the [messaging] section in /etc/pulp/server.conf. However, Pulp doesn't have just one AMQP message bus. It has two: one for consumers, and one for Pulp's own task system. It seems strange that pulp-admin status tells the health of the optional consumer messaging bus and not the mandatory task message bus.

As a user, I expect pulp-admin status to tell me the status of Pulp's most critical components. It doesn't do so. I would suggest that:

• pulp-admin status tell whether or not the tasking message bus is connected. (This corresponds to the [tasks] section in /etc/pulp/server.conf.)
• The docs should clearly explain the semantics of the "Messaging Connection" field.

Currently:

• pulp-admin status tells whether or not the consumer message bus is connected. (This corresponds to the [messaging] section in /etc/pulp/server.conf.)
• The docs don't explain the semantics of the "Messaging Connection" field.

Note that much consumer-related functionality is being dropped in Pulp 3, anyway.