Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1479515
[RFE] Improve Satellite Task Management
Last modified: 2018-06-15 18:37:16 EDT
Description of problem: As a Satellite user, I would need the product to have a better management concerning tasks. I would like to: -Avoid the accumulation of Pending/Paused Tasks -Avoid having to Clean/Destroy/Unlocks Tasks -Not having to deal with Dynflow console -Have a better notification about the underlying issue (errored/paused tasks often being a collateral effect) -Dynflow should have a skip all link to include resume the task -Foreman rake console and dynflow should be locked to only 1 Satellite user session to prevent concurrent task destroying A lot of issues required involving interaction with Tasks, which is time consuming, can lead to mistakes or data inconsistency.
Two asks from me: 1) I'd also like to suggest global option for task handling, depending on the level of task involvement the user wants: For example: AUTO Would NOT allow tasks to settle in a paused state (holding locks) if at all possible; complicated tasks that reach a paused state and require user interaction should be automatically “rolled back” into a stopped state, releasing the lock. MANUAL Allows tasks to pause for manual, step-by-step user intervention of individual steps. Locks are held in the meantime. 2) Some kind of console command to force recursively skipping all related steps in a specific task. Preferably, initiating this by task id on a paused/error task would: - resume the task - check for settlement into a paused state - recursively skip all skippable steps - resume the task - rinse/repeat until the task reaches a stopped state # foreman-rake katello:taskcleanup TASK_UUID --force-skip