Nova has supported listing the fixed ips for a single host for a while. Well, except for that time we broke it by removing the database call it used and not noticing. My change to fix that situation has just landed, so this should now work again. To list the fixed ips used on a host, do something like: nova-manage fixed list hostname I will propose a backport to grizzly for this now.
In the last few weeks a new quota has been added to Nova covering Fixed IPs. This was done in response to LaunchPad bug 1125468, which was disclosed as CVE 2013-1838. To be honest I think there are some things the vulnerability management team learned the hard way with this disclosure. For example, we didn't realize that we needed to update python-novaclient to allow users to set the quota, or that adding a quota would require changes in Horizon. Both of these errors have been corrected. More importanly, the default value of the new quota was set to 10. I made this decision based on the default value of the instances quota coupled with a desire to protect deployments from denial of service. However, this decision combined with a failure to explicitly call out the new quota in the release notes for the Folsom stable release have resulted in some deployers experiencing upgrade problems. This was drawn to our attention by LaunchPad bug 1161190. We have therefore moved to set the default quota for fixed IPs to unlimited. If you want to protect yourself from a potential DoS, then you should seriously consider changing this default value in your deployment.…