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Hey Andrew, thanks a lot for your answer!

I am afraid, I do not fully understand why the design is working as described. So please let me ask two more questions to make me fully comprehend why the described behaviour is justified:

1. Why is the UI allowed to show the wrong information of a host, making the user assume that there actually is a content view assigned that's not really assigned to this host?
2. If a host group is not intended to change host parameters, why does the host inherit a content view when you assign the host (changes a host parameter)?
3. Actually, I would expect properties to be inherited from a host group if they were not specified specifically for that host, why does this not make sense?

Thanks again and best wishes!

Actually, those were three more questions, sorry. :D

This is not reproduce able on latest nightly builds, seems its already fixed.

~~~
irb(main):013:0> Host.find_by_name('server.example.com').hostgroup.name
=> "HG1"

irb(main):014:0> Host.find_by_name('server.example.com').hostgroup
=> #<Hostgroup id: 1, name: "HG1", created_at: "2017-09-11 10:27:29", updated_at: "2017-09-11 10:27:29", environment_id: 2, operatingsystem_id: nil, architecture_id: nil, medium_id: nil, ptable_id: nil, root_pass: "", puppet_ca_proxy_id: 1, use_image: nil, image_file: nil, ancestry: nil, vm_defaults: nil, subnet_id: nil, domain_id: nil, puppet_proxy_id: nil, title: "HG1", realm_id: nil, compute_profile_id: nil, content_source_id: 1, grub_pass: "", content_view_id: 1, lifecycle_environment_id: 1, lookup_value_matcher: "hostgroup=HG1", kickstart_repository_id: nil, subnet6_id: nil, pxe_loader: nil, description: "", openscap_proxy_id: nil>

irb(main):015:0> Host.find_by_name('server.example.com').hostgroup
=> #<Hostgroup id: 1, name: "HG1", created_at: "2017-09-11 10:27:29", updated_at: "2017-09-19 09:14:02", environment_id: 2, operatingsystem_id: nil, architecture_id: nil, medium_id: nil, ptable_id: nil, root_pass: "", puppet_ca_proxy_id: 1, use_image: nil, image_file: nil, ancestry: nil, vm_defaults: nil, subnet_id: nil, domain_id: nil, puppet_proxy_id: nil, title: "HG1", realm_id: nil, compute_profile_id: nil, content_source_id: 1, grub_pass: "", content_view_id: 2, lifecycle_environment_id: 1, lookup_value_matcher: "hostgroup=HG1", kickstart_repository_id: nil, subnet6_id: nil, pxe_loader: nil, description: "", openscap_proxy_id: nil>
~~~

See the `content_view_id` in the first response was `1` and in the second it was changed to `2` and its reflecting the correct change in rake console.

Hello Nagoor,

thanks for having a look! You are however looking at the host group record, but not at the host's record as it is described in the reproduction steps.

I will also try to find some time in the next couple of days to verify this bug against the latest Katello version.

Thanks and regards,

--Gerrit

Gerrit,

1. If the console and UI mismatch, then that's definitely a bug. I am yet unable to reproduce this, however.
2. Hostgroups set parameters on the host only when the Host is first created. It is not supposed to change Host parameters of hosts that are already created when a Hostgroup parameter is changed.

If you want to propose this as a feature, you may.