Bug #6518: foreman sometimes picks the wrong bmc smart proxy - Foreman

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Bug #6518

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foreman sometimes picks the wrong bmc smart proxy

Added by Brian Witt over 10 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Brian Witt

Category:

BMC

Target version:

1.6.0

Difficulty:

Triaged:

Bugzilla link:

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/1608

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Description

We have a setup with several smart proxies. Sometimes when loading a host page and clicking on the 'BMC' tab, we'll see
Failure: ERF12-1772 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]: Unable to perform power BMC operation ([RestClient::BadRequest]: 400 Bad Request) for proxy <wrong smart proxy>

Somehow it's picking the wrong smart proxy, even though all the settings are correct. (subnet for the bmc interface is correct, ip address, mac is correct)

AND it seems to work 4/5 of the time, only picking the wrong one 1 out of 5.

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Updated by Brian Witt over 10 years ago

I've submitted PR 1569
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/1569

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Updated by Dominic Cleal over 10 years ago

Category set to BMC
Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
Assignee set to Brian Witt
Target version set to 1.8.0

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Updated by Brian Witt over 10 years ago

I forgot to mention, that in those lines in app/models/nic/bmc.rb:28-29

SmartProxy.with_features("BMC").joins(:subnets).where(['dhcp_id = ? or tftp_id = ?', subnet_id, subnet_id]).first if subnet_id
proxy ||= SmartProxy.with_features("BMC").first

seems to always fail (i.e. it always picks the 'first' one), even when foreman picks the right proxy (or at least I see the status appear on the bmc tab). So I'm not sure what's going on there.

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Updated by Brian Witt over 10 years ago

The 'first' one is not reachable by foreman normally, so when it fails I see a connection error to that first smart proxy. The other times when it works I presume it's actually talking to the right smart proxy, even though the 'proxy' var in the code is set to the 'first' (unreachable) one.

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