Using "Nova Service-Force-Down

Problem

While trying to run thenova command for service-force-down we get the following error.

# nova service-force-down [host uuid] nova-compute    error: unrecognised arguments: nova-compute

Looking at the usage of the command it tells us to use "ID" as the argument.

Usage: nova service-force-down [--unset] [id] does not specify which id to be used.

Environment

• Platform9 Managed OpenStack - v4.0 and Higher
• Nova CLI (python-novaclient)

Procedure

1. The ID to be used in the command is of the compute service for a host.

# nova service-force-down [--unset] [id]

2. This IDcan be obtained using the following command.

# nova service-list

Thefirst column in the outputof the above command will get you the id of the binary and this id should be used with the command nova service-force-down [--unset] [id] to force up or down the nova-compute service.