Feature #16890: Prevent host discovery for existing MAC/IP addresses - Discovery - Foreman

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Feature #16890

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Prevent host discovery for existing MAC/IP addresses

Added by Andrew Blatt about 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Low

Assignee:

Lukas Zapletal

Category:

Discovery plugin

Target version:

Discovery Plugin 8.0.1

Difficulty:

Triaged:

Bugzilla link:

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_discovery/pull/324

Fixed in Releases:

Found in Releases:

Red Hat JIRA:

Description

Ran into a situation where someone deleted the pxe/macfile from tftpserver. This allowed server to use default pxe file that says to boot into discovery image. When discovery image boots, it should check if ip/mac already exists in host table, and if so, don't add into discovered_hosts table. When this occurs and I remove the entry from discovered_hosts, the existing host entry loses its FACTs information.

Related issues 2 (0 open — 2 closed)

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Updated by Dominic Cleal about 8 years ago

Project changed from Foreman to Discovery
Category deleted (~~Inventory~~)

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal about 8 years ago

Subject changed from Prevent host booting into discovery from registration if server already exists in host table. to Prevent host discovery for existing MAC/IP addresses
Category set to Discovery plugin
Priority changed from Normal to Low

Well this is quite special case when someone delete file on TFTP server. If this gets ever implemented, this must be an opt-in setting (each MAC and IP). Only provisioning NICs must be matched as well.

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 8 years ago

Related to Bug #17260: Discovered (7.0) host does not delete with error "undefined method `operatingsystem'" added

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 8 years ago

Experienced this today, when existing (managed) host does exist and it boots into Discovery mode, existing host is "converted" into discovered host, facts are deleted. But what's more important, the host is in error state and cannot be deleted (workaround is via rake console). I will make a patch to prevent to discover an existing server.

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Updated by The Foreman Bot almost 8 years ago

Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
Assignee set to Lukas Zapletal
Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_discovery/pull/324 added