Marek Hulán wrote:

Would you prefer one option to disable all host attributes updates (e.g. OS) or just network interfaces?

I only need network attributes, but others might like the need to disable all of them. Maybe since the data is already stored as facts, there could be a button on a page that says Populate with Facts or something like that should someone want to pull them for a particular host or set of settings? Just an idea.

For when you already have a network setup, we would like the option to keep this and update the facts in foreman and the option to overwrite the currently used config and reload the network service to apply the new settings.

And maybe add a network managed/unmanaged flag to each nic/host/hostgroup

We use ovirt to manage the nic's of our virtualization hosts, but for the rest we want to use foreman. While some of the systems have a specific network setting that we apply through other means. Maybe we will use foreman to setup/manage these too but we would like to have the choice.

It seems that only the network facts are the scary ones to auto-update, because of the weirdness of the facts that contain them (e.g. ipaddress) and the amount of "intent" you have to divine to determine which one is the right one. There are lots of edge cases, too, where you could have a NIC replacement on a server that could throw everything off.

Upgraded from 1.7.2 to 1.82. with this setting already set to true and new interfaces were still added and existing ones were reset.