Bug 671475

Summary:	RFE: beaker client 'bkr machine-test' should run /distribution/inventory for RHEL6
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Phil Cassaro <pcassaro>
Component:	inventory	Assignee:	Steven Lawrance <stl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	0.6	CC:	bpeck, dhafeman, emcnabb, mcsontos, pbunyan, rmancy
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Description Phil Cassaro 2011-01-21 15:55:43 UTC

Description of problem: when testing machines with 'bkr machine-test', RHEL5 and RHEL6 installs are scheduled for the system. The /distribution/inventory task is run for the RHEL5 install, but not RHEL6. On Power7 ppc64 systems, RHEL5 is run in Power6 compatibilty mode. When the /distribution/inventory task is run on these systems, smolt reports CPU info incorrectly. Specifically Power7 cpu's are reported and recorded in beaker as Power6. If machine-test could run /distribution/inventory for RHEL6 as well, the correct data would be recorded in beaker.


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How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run 'bkr machine-test' on power7 system
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Actual results: /distribution/inventory task is run for the RHEL5 install, but not RHEL6. Inventory data is collected from the system when it has RHEL 5 installed, and this results with inaccurate data being recorded in Keys/Values


Expected results: If /distribution/inventory could be scheduled to run on the RHEL6 installs, then data recorded in beaker would be more reliable


Additional info: see https://engineering.redhat.com/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=81489

Comment 1 Bill Peck 2011-01-21 16:01:09 UTC

agreed.  inventory script will need to be re-written to work with newer releases.

Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2011-02-02 01:19:37 UTC

Will we need to continue supporting RHEL5 *and* RHEL6 for the inventory script, or will it be enough to just port the whole thing to RHEL6? Maybe we can take the opportunity to switch to the latest packaged smolt as well, instead of including our own hacked version in /distribution/inventory.

Comment 3 Dan Callaghan 2011-02-02 01:21:03 UTC

Oh noes, I just realised: it will still have to run on RHEL5 for ia64 :-(

Comment 4 Bill Peck 2011-03-14 19:52:57 UTC

Adding Derich to make sure we cover s390 properly

Comment 5 Steven Lawrance 2011-07-19 00:22:00 UTC

*** Bug 690670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***