When a remote compute is unreachable, the controller now uses exponential
backoff for reconnection attempts: 5s, 10s, 20s, 40s, 80s, then caps at
300s (5 minutes). Previously it retried every 5 seconds indefinitely.
User-initiated operations (open project, start node) still trigger an
immediate connection attempt, so recovery is not delayed in practice.
Related: #2704
When deleting the AUTOIDLEPC project in autoidlepc(), if a remote compute
is disconnected, the deletion fails with ControllerForbiddenError due to
our compute connection status check. This causes:
- The project to remain in the controller's memory
- Subsequent autoidlepc calls to fail
- User must restart the server to recover
This fix adds exception handling to ensure the project is always removed
from the controller's memory, even if deletion fails.
Related to #2703
The initial fix used _project_created_on_compute to check for disconnected
computes before deletion, but this set gets reset during project.open(),
causing the check to fail.
Now uses self._computes which is loaded from the topology file and
persists through the open() call.
Related: #2703
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit addresses issue #2703 where deleting a project with nodes
on remote compute nodes would result in long waits with no feedback
if those computes were unreachable.
Changes:
1. Compute connection status updates on connection failure
- When a compute fails to connect, update connected=False and last_error
- Send compute.updated notification to UI so users can see status
- This allows Web UI to display real-time connection status
2. Project deletion checks compute status before attempting deletion
- Check all computes used by the project are connected
- If any compute is disconnected, immediately reject deletion
- Provide clear error message indicating which computes are offline
- This prevents long timeouts and gives users immediate feedback
Benefits:
- Immediate feedback instead of 120-second timeouts
- Clear error messages about which computes are disconnected
- Prevents orphaned resources on offline computes
- Improves user experience by avoiding silent waits
Related: #2703
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously only the "path" field was converted to a relative path for remote computes, causing issues with QEMU and VMware nodes that use different image path fields. Now all known image path fields are converted, ensuring consistent behavior across IOU, QEMU, Dynamips, and VMware node types.
When creating a node on a remote compute, the controller now sends
only the image filename instead of the absolute local path. The remote
compute will search for the image in its own configured images_directories.
If the image is not found, the compute returns ImageMissingError, which
triggers the controller's automatic image upload mechanism.
This fixes issue #2676 where remote computes reject paths from the
controller due to mismatched directory prefixes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When accessing /static/web-ui without trailing slash, the request would
fail with "RuntimeError: File at path ... is not a file" because:
1. The route /static/web-ui/{file_path:path} doesn't match paths without
trailing slash (Starlette's path regex requires the /)
2. The request falls through to StaticFiles mount, which tries to serve
the directory as a file
This fix:
- Sets html=True on StaticFiles mount to automatically redirect directory
URLs to trailing slash versions
- Adds os.path.isdir() check to handle empty file_path gracefully
Fixes#2680
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes#1658
Add validation in the update_template method to check if a template
with the same name already exists before updating. This prevents
users from creating duplicate template names by editing existing
templates.
The check excludes the current template being edited to allow
updating other properties without changing the name.
When updating a compute without providing a password field,
compute_update.password is None and calling .get_secret_value()
on it causes a 500 Internal Server Error. Only set the password
in update_values when a password is actually provided.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a hostname validation fails, the error message now includes
the allowed character set to help users provide valid names.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add documentation explaining the common issue where WebSocket console connections to remote compute nodes fail due to credential mismatch. The guide describes the error symptoms, root cause (Controller forwarding its own credentials to Compute), and solution (ensuring matching compute_username and compute_password in Compute's configuration).
This section was misleading - the actual root cause is host=0.0.0.0
causing controller to register as 127.0.0.1, not hostname resolution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add details about the "No common subnet" error when Controller's host
is set to 0.0.0.0, and how to verify via /v3/version endpoint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add documentation for the "No common subnet" error when the
controller's hostname in /etc/hosts resolves to an unreachable
or stale IP address.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CLI entry point was renamed from 'wireshark' to 'gns3server-web-wireshark-setup'
to avoid conflicts with the system wireshark package.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The wireshark CLI entry point creates /usr/bin/wireshark which conflicts
with the system wireshark package on Arch Linux (owned by wireshark-qt),
causing package installation to fail.
Rename to gns3-wireshark to follow the same naming convention as other
GNS3 CLI tools (gns3server, gns3vmnet).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add verify=False to requests.get() when capture_url uses HTTPS protocol,
to skip SSL certificate validation. This allows PacketCaptureTool to
work with GNS3 servers using self-signed certificates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
