Bug #24090: Ansible Callback Script generates duplicate Foreman Host entries - Ansible - Foreman

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Bug #24090

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Ansible Callback Script generates duplicate Foreman Host entries

Added by Philipp Mueller almost 6 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Description

Hi all,

we are using Foreman 1.17.1 with Katello 3.6.0 in combination with Ansible 2.5.2.
When enableing the Foreman setting: "create host on facts upload" and using the foreman callback plugin, which is integrated in ansible, the new foreman hosts are created, when executing an ansible -m setup. This works perfectly fine and ansible keeps updating the hosts facts.

Whenever we execute ansible on "localhost" for example ansible -i localhost, -m setup localhost - it will also create a "localhost" host in foreman.
After executing the ansible setup again, another localhost object is created in foreman with no visible difference other than the foreman host-id.

[root@xxx devel]# hammer host list --organization xxx --search localhost
---|------|------------------|------------|----|-----|--------------|----------------------
ID | NAME | OPERATING SYSTEM | HOST GROUP | IP | MAC | CONTENT VIEW | LIFECYCLE ENVIRONMENT
---|------|------------------|------------|----|-----|--------------|----------------------

[root@xxx devel]# for i in $(seq 1 5);do ansible -i localhost, -m setup localhost --connection=local ;done

[root@xxx devel]# hammer host list --organization xxx--search localhost
-----|---------------------|------------------|------------|-------------|-------------------|--------------|----------------------
ID | NAME | OPERATING SYSTEM | HOST GROUP | IP | MAC | CONTENT VIEW | LIFECYCLE ENVIRONMENT
-----|---------------------|------------------|------------|-------------|-------------------|--------------|----------------------
1841 | localhost.xx.net | RedHat 7.5 | | 10.0.25.200 | 00:50:56:a8:25:60 | |
1842 | localhost.xx.net | RedHat 7.5 | | 10.0.25.200 | 00:50:56:a8:25:60 | |
1849 | localhost.xx.net | RedHat 7.5 | | 10.0.25.200 | 00:50:56:a8:25:60 | |
1852 | localhost.xx.net | RedHat 7.5 | | 10.0.25.200 | 00:50:56:a8:25:60 | |
1855 | localhost.xx.net | RedHat 7.5 | | 10.0.25.200 | 00:50:56:a8:25:60 | |
1858 | localhost.xx.net | RedHat 7.5 | | 10.0.25.200 | 00:50:56:a8:25:60 | |
-----|---------------------|------------------|------------|-------------|-------------------|--------------|----------------------

By using the FQDN we can avoid this issue.

Does anyone have an idea why this happens?

kind regards,
Philipp

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Updated by Martin Angermeier almost 6 years ago

Related to Bug #22279: Foreman registers duplicates of host again and again on Ansible callback added

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Updated by Ondřej Pražák over 5 years ago

Status changed from New to Duplicate

Thank you for reporting this, I have managed to reproduce when using partially qualified name of a host. Everything works as expected when using host FQDN, as you have already observed. The problem is that we rely on FQDN to match the uploaded facts and reports to an existing host. I believe it is exactly the same issue as #22279, therefore I will close this as a duplicate. Feel free to reopen if I misunderstood or the fix for #22279 does not resolve the issue for you.

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