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Bug 1445403 - Need ability to completely disable goferd on managed clients
Summary: Need ability to completely disable goferd on managed clients
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: katello-agent
Version: 6.2.9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: Justin Sherrill
QA Contact: Roman Plevka
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Depends On: 1454352 1463818
Blocks: 1122832
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-25 15:23 UTC by Mike McCune
Modified: 2021-03-11 15:10 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

Fixed In Version: katello-host-tools-3.0.0-5
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: 1463809 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-10 20:13:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Foreman Issue Tracker 19393 0 Normal Closed Need ability to completely disable goferd on managed clients 2020-10-14 09:18:04 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Article) 3154811 0 None None None 2017-09-28 05:37:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:2467 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Satellite Tools 6.2.11 Async Release 2017-08-11 00:12:12 UTC

Description Mike McCune 2017-04-25 15:23:05 UTC 
Due to instability in gofer + qpid and our lack of ability to reliably resolve the following high visibility and severity bugs:

1) goferd continues to leak memory when qdrouterd is not accessible. Was supposedly fixed as per bz 1260963

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318015

2) qpidd consuming huge memory during scale 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367735

we need to support the ability to have managed clients run without requiring goferd to be enabled. This will also help in environments that don't need goferd to perform updates and who are entirely relying on REX as a way to perform updates.

In the short term for 6.2 we may still require the installation of katello-agent but then allow the service level disabling of goferd and rely on a yum plugin, cron or some other mechanism to replace the existing applicability and enabled/disabled repository reports sent back to the server.
Comment 2 Mike McCune 2017-04-25 16:12:14 UTC 
Main Use Case:

1) User registers via subscription-manager normally

2) A user installs katello-agent via yum and by default, goferd is started and enabled as a service daemon

3) User wishes to ensure goferd is not running on the client and runs: 
 systemctl stop goferd.service 
 systemctl disable goferd.service

4) User enables and disables repositories via 'subscription-manager repos' command

5) Applicability and errata updates are correctly displayed in the Satellite UI

6) User utilizes REX as a means to apply errata updates

7) Applicability and errata updates are correctly displayed in the Satellite UI after application of errata
Comment 3 Brad Buckingham 2017-04-26 14:21:19 UTC 
Created redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19393 from this bug
Comment 5 Satellite Program 2017-06-06 20:09:53 UTC 
Moving this bug to POST for triage into Satellite 6 since the upstream issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19393 has been resolved.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-10 20:13:02 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2467
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