Bug 1306541

Summary:	osad failover does not work
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Gennadii Altukhov <galtukho>
Component:	Clients	Assignee:	Gennadii Altukhov <galtukho>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	2.4	CC:	fdewaley, galtukho, jdobes, jentrena, mmello, satqe-list, tkasparek, tlestach
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OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	1217121	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-06-16 08:06:50 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1217121
Bug Blocks:	1127217, 1484117

Description Gennadii Altukhov 2016-02-11 09:04:01 UTC

Description of problem:
osad failover does not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
osad-5.11.44

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register a client against a Spacewalk Proxy server.
2. Configure multiple Spacewalk Proxies in 'serverURL' option in file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date :

serverURL=https://proxy1.usersys.redhat.com/XMLRPC;https://proxy2.usersys.redhat.com/XMLRPC;https://proxy3.usersys.redhat.com/XMLRPC;

3. Set "enable_failover = 1" in file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.conf
4. Stop the Spacewalk Proxy services in the first Proxy server listed in 'serverURL' by running "rhn-proxy stop" in that Spacewalk Proxy.
5. Start 'osad' service.

Actual results:
'osad' tries to connect to the first Spacewalk Proxy defined in 'serverURL' only.
After failing, 'osad' does not try to connect to any other Spacewalk Proxy server listed in 'serverURL' nor to the Spacewalk Server.
So 'osad' tries to connect to the first server in 'serverURL' only despite failover mode being enabled.

Expected results:
After failing, 'osad' iterates through the list of servers in 'serverURL' until it successfully connects to one of them:
- osad tries to connect to proxy1.
- if that fails, osad tries to connect to proxy2.
- if that fails, osad tries to connect to proxy3.
- if that fails, osad tries to connect to Spacewalk Server.
If 'osad' is not connected to the first server in 'serverURL' and such server becomes available, osad reconnects to it within 5 minutes.

Comment 1 Gennadii Altukhov 2016-02-11 09:06:23 UTC

Taking...

Comment 2 Gennadii Altukhov 2016-02-12 14:46:37 UTC

spacewalk.git:

2e4323f182af19a96021815ea832afcdee8bca33

Comment 3 Tomáš Kašpárek 2016-06-16 08:06:50 UTC

Spacewalk 2.5 was released.

Comment 4 Eric Herget 2017-09-28 18:09:59 UTC

This BZ closed some time during 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7.  Adding to 2.7 tracking bug.