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Bug 1353681

Summary: [RFE] idempotent ipa-client-install
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Josh Preston <jpreston>
Component: ipaAssignee: Florence Blanc-Renaud <frenaud>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Kaleem <ksiddiqu>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: afarley, bcook, cvantuin, djasa, jgalipea, jpreston, mkosek, pasik, pvoborni, rcritten, seceng-idm-qe-list
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Description Josh Preston 2016-07-07 17:06:39 UTC
We should provide advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics for clients experiencing issues with IPA.

For example, a client was having issues with systems frequently losing IPA functionality.  After lots of troubleshooting, we ended up re-doing the ipa-client-install and it would work until rogue config mgmt "fixed" it.

To the customer, they now view everything in terms of idempotence (is that the word?!) like with Ansible or Puppet, so they want to rerun ipa-client-install in a --noop / dry-run mode and watch for changes.  The remaining tasks would check things like:

* NTP and time
* DNS and name services resolution
* Kerberos configuration, KDC and realm verification
* Service Statii - ie sssd, etc

Comment 2 Martin Kosek 2016-07-08 06:37:19 UTC
Can we close this request as duplicate with Bug 1152084? We have this request tracked there already and there is even some POC code and design page you can help us review and provide feedback for.

Comment 3 Petr Vobornik 2016-07-08 08:08:12 UTC
Bug 1152084 doesn't cover the "idempotent" part. So if that is the requirement  then this bz can be changed to "[RFE] idempotent ipa-client-install"

Comment 4 Martin Kosek 2016-07-08 08:26:24 UTC
There were requests for this in the past already (I do not have the tickets handy) and IIRC, there was push back against it as it could be very error prone. Client uninstallation & installation was suggest as the workflow in that case.

Comment 5 Petr Vobornik 2016-07-21 15:29:47 UTC
Chaning the name. The other part is handled in Bug 1152084

Comment 6 Petr Vobornik 2016-07-21 15:53:22 UTC
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6103

Comment 9 Amy Farley 2019-08-16 13:42:54 UTC
This will be done as part of the ansible tooling currently in process, closing this bug.

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 03:27:44 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days