Description of problem: In Satellite 6.1 Hostgroups have inheritance of ContentView, LifecycleEnvironment (and implicit the calculated Puppet Environment) from parent Hostgroups. But the Host cannot inherit the current values from the Hostgroups. As Host is in fact a Hostgroup with only 1 item, it shall behave the same as all aspects that apply to Hostgroups, including inheritance of values. Secondly the inheritance is done for Parameters and Puppet Classes, that makes the behavior of certain aspects of Host-Hostgroups inconsistent and unpredictable for the user, as sometimes settings are inherited and sometimes not. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create Hostgroup 2. Set ContentView to A 3. Create Host in Hostgroup 4. Change Hostgroup ContentView to B 5. Check that Host Contentview is changed to B 6. Check that Host PuppetEnvironment is changed to B Actual results: Host (Calculated) ContentView stays A Host (Calculated) PuppetEnvironment stays A Expected results: Host (Calculated) ContentView is changed to B Host (Calculated) PuppetEnvironment is changed to B Additional info: In the past with Cobbler (used by Sat5), the such Profile values could be inherited by the Systems.
*** Bug 1172991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thank you for your interest in Satellite 6. We have evaluated this request, and we do not expect this to be implemented in the product in the foreseeable future. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this, please feel free to contact Rich Jerrido or Bryan Kearney. Thank you.
Why is this not being seen as an improvement? Why should a host not be allowed to inherit information from the hostgroup? What is the idea behind this decision?
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 500 days