Troubleshooting Neutron

The troubleshooting of Neutron has a very similar procedure when it comes to OpenStack.

The logs are located in the /var/logs/neutron directory. Depending on the services that are installed on the node, the following files are found:

  • dhcp-agent.log for the neutron-dhcp-agent service
  • l3-agent.log for the neutron-l3-agent
  • metadata-agent.log for the neutron-metadata-agent
  • openvswitch-agent.log for the neutron-openvswitch-agent service
  • server.log for the neutron-server

These log files contain information related to the services and can help in determining the case of the problem.

However, before we rummage through the logs, we perform the following steps:

  1. We will ping the network interfaces connecting the compute node and the network ...

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