xenserver: Don't monitor external-ids until XAPI is up

monitor-external-ids can't complete all its tasks until XAPI is up.  The
daemon is usually started before XAPI, so it can miss events.  This
commit causes the daemon to block until XAPI is finished initializing.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/xenserver/usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_monitor-external-ids b/xenserver/usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_monitor-external-ids
index c87171f0..f91801d2 100755
--- a/xenserver/usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_monitor-external-ids
+++ b/xenserver/usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_monitor-external-ids
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@
 # Bridge table and duplicates its value to the preferred "xs-network-uuids".
 
 import getopt
+import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import syslog
+import time
 
 import XenAPI
 
@@ -189,6 +191,11 @@ def main(argv):
     idl = ovs.db.idl.Idl(remote, "Open_vSwitch", monitor_uuid_schema_cb)
 
     ovs.daemon.daemonize()
+
+    # This daemon is usually started before XAPI, but to complete our
+    # tasks, we need it.  Wait here until it's up.
+    while not os.path.exists("/var/run/xapi_init_complete.cookie"):
+        time.sleep(1)
  
     bridges = {}
     interfaces = {}