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Bug 1597246

Summary: [RFE] Remote Execution should provide an option to randomize the execution order
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: sbadhwar
Component: Remote ExecutionAssignee: Adam Ruzicka <aruzicka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Peter Ondrejka <pondrejk>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.4CC: aruzicka, bkearney, dsinglet, egolov, inecas, jhutar, psuriset, trichard
Target Milestone: 6.7.0Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release: Unused   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: tfm-rubygem-foreman_remote_execution-1.8.3-0 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
You can now choose to randomize the order in which remote execution jobs are executed on hosts, helping to reduce the load when running a large number of remote execution jobs on a large number of hosts.
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Last Closed: 2020-04-14 13:22:58 UTC Type: Bug
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Description sbadhwar 2018-07-02 11:15:09 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently Remote Execution executes on hosts sorted according to their hostnames. The ability to randomize the execution order will be a nice addition to the feature set.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite 6.4 Snap 9.0

Comment 1 Adam Ruzicka 2018-07-02 11:19:49 UTC
Created redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/24124 from this bug

Comment 2 Satellite Program 2018-09-13 12:04:00 UTC
Upstream bug assigned to aruzicka

Comment 3 Satellite Program 2018-09-13 12:04:04 UTC
Upstream bug assigned to aruzicka

Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2019-08-06 12:02:59 UTC
Moving this bug to POST for triage into Satellite 6 since the upstream issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/24124 has been resolved.

Comment 6 Peter Ondrejka 2020-01-03 14:01:50 UTC
Verified on Sat 6.7 snap 7

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-14 13:22:58 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/RHSA-2020:1454