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Bug #9882

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hammer host create with no compute profile or attributes results in "mac value is blank"

Added by Tom Caspy almost 10 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Tom Caspy
Category:
API
Target version:
-
Difficulty:
Triaged:
Bugzilla link:
1177570
Pull request:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/2262
Fixed in Releases:
Found in Releases:
Red Hat JIRA:

Description

When creating a host on a compute resource with no compute attributes or compute profile, you get the error "mac value is blank":

    # hammer -u … -p … compute-resource info --id 22 | grep -i provider
    Provider:    Libvirt
    # hammer -u … -p … host create \
        --architecture-id 37 \
        --domain-id 42 \
        --environment-id 81 \
        --location-id 258 \
        --mac 'a9:1a:9a:70:be:60' \
        --medium-id 32 \
        --name 'AkqttNPO2' \
        --operatingsystem-id 43 \
        --organization-id 259 \
        --partition-table-id 28 \
        --puppet-proxy-id 1 \
        --root-pass 'changeme' \
        --compute-resource-id 22
    Could not create the host:
    mac value is blank!

Foreman detects whether the host is compute or not based on the presence of the compute_resource_id and some attributes to create it with.

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 #1

Updated by Tom Caspy almost 10 years ago

  • Bugzilla link set to 1177570
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 #2

Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 10 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Category set to API
  • Subject changed from hammer host create with mac results in "mac value is blank" to hammer host create with no compute profile or attributes results in "mac value is blank"
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 #3

Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 10 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
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 #4

Updated by Marek Hulán over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Resolved

I believe this was caused by missing compute attributes that would specify at least one interface which caused fog to create a vm without any nic so Foreman couldn't load a mac. To create the host properly on libvirt compute resource, you have to specify --interface argument as well so it will create at least one interface, e.g.

# hammer -u … -p … host create \
        --architecture-id 37 \
        --domain-id 42 \
        --environment-id 81 \
        --location-id 258 \
        --mac 'a9:1a:9a:70:be:60' \
        --medium-id 32 \
        --name 'AkqttNPO2' \
        --operatingsystem-id 43 \
        --organization-id 259 \
        --partition-table-id 28 \
        --puppet-proxy-id 1 \
        --root-pass 'changeme' \
        --compute-resource-id 22 \
        --interface type=network           # <--- this is important

After we match interfaces with compute interface (introduced in 1.8) this is no longer an issue. If you see this behaviour on Foreman 1.8+, please reopen the issue.

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