Bug 1307016
| Summary: | Satellite Option to merge virt-who reported rhev/kvm hypevisor and content host where the hypervisor is running | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Satellite | Reporter: | Stefan Nemeth <snemeth> |
| Component: | Pulp | Assignee: | Tom McKay <tomckay> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Katello QA List <katello-qa-list> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.1.6 | CC: | bkearney, jentrena, ktordeur, rjerrido, sauchter, tomckay, xdmoon |
| Target Milestone: | Unspecified | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | Unused | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2016-08-02 16:09:37 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Stefan Nemeth
2016-02-12 13:06:22 UTC
tl;dr version - you don't have to use the rhevm virt-who config if you are using RHEL as a hypervisor. RHEV Supports two types of hypervisors: * a RHEL system with packages from the 'rhel-7-server-rhev-mgmt-agent-rpms' repo. * RHEV-H (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#Installing_the_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Hypervisor) The former is a standard RHEL system, that is registered via subscription-manager to the Satellite. The latter is an read-only appliance installation of RHEL that is NOT expected to be registered via the Satellite. This 'bug' (if you wish to call it that) occurs because the (RHEL) hypervisor is being reported to Satellite twice (once via its subscription-manager registration and again via virt-who in the rhevm configuration). For a given hostname, it is expected that the user sets up: * virt-who on the hypervisors with kvm/qemu mode (for RHEL hypervisors) OR * virt-who in RHEV-M mode (for RHEV-H hypervisors) But NEVER both. For RHEL hypervisors, as they are registered to the Satellite, all that is needed is to install virt-who on EACH hypervisor and configure it as such. # egrep -v '(^#|^$)' /etc/sysconfig/virt-who VIRTWHO_DEBUG=0 VIRTWHO_SATELLITE6=1 VIRTWHO_LIBVIRT=1 For RHEV-H hypervisors, it is expected to configure virt-who (man 5 virt-who-config) with the rhevm mode. The only caveat is when the customer is running BOTH RHEL AND RHEV-H hypervisors, you'd have to configure the virt-who instance running in rhevm mode to NOT report the RHEL hypervisors (which can be done via the filter_host_uuids directive - again see man 5 virt-who-config). I do not know how common this configuration is (mixed RHEL & RHEV-H environments). Possibly the RHEV engineers (on rhev-tech@) would know. I would assert that using virt-who to report the same hypervisor into the same organization via differing means is a misconfiguration. However, if it is determined based upon the prevalence of mixed RHEL/RHEV-H environments to fix this misconfiguration by somehow linking the two entries (if possible), that would satisfy this request. Moving 6.2 bugs out to sat-backlog. Moving 6.2 bugs out to sat-backlog. The following doc BZ should cover this scenario https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348724 |