Bug 1635861

Connecting redmine issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/11914 from this bug

upstream issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17148 was delivered by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246554 in 6.3. This will track the delivery of upstream issue 11914 only.

upstream issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17148 was delivered by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246554 in 6.3. This will track the delivery of upstream issue 11914 only.

Adding some more details about this issue:


Following API call in Satellite 6.2.15

# curl -X GET -s -k -u admin:redhat https://localhost/api/v2/hosts/4 | python -m json.tool | egrep -w "virt::host_type|is_guest|virt"
~~~
        "virt": null,
        "virt::host_type": "kvm",
        "virt::is_guest": "true",
        "virt::uuid": "d39ad2e5-c218-4d4e-a484-036c33a73953"
~~~

Example for physical,virtual,hypervisor on Satellite 6.2.15:
~~~
Physical Server: physical.example.com (physical_host.json)
"""
virt::host_type : "Not Applicable"
virt::is_guest  : false
virt            : null
"""

VMWare Guest: VMguest.example.com (vmware_guest.json)
"""
virt::host_type : "vmware"
virt::is_guest  : true
virt            : null
"""

RHEV / KVM Guest: KVMguest.example.com (rhev_guest.json)
"""
virt::host_type : "rhev, kvm"
virt::is_guest  : true
virt            : null
"""

Hypervisor: virt-who-hypervisor.example.com-3 (hypervisor.json)
"""
virt::host_type : not present
virt::is_guest  : not present
virt            : not present
"""
~~~

#####################################################


On Satellite 6.4:

# curl -X GET -s -k -u admin:redhat https://localhost/api/v2/hosts/411 | python -m json.tool | egrep -w "virt::host_type|is_guest|virt"

Against a VM:
~~~
      "virt": null,
        "virt::host_type": "kvm",
        "virt::is_guest": "true",
        "virt::uuid": "8b762480-d097-4470-b1f4-289846c186a5",
            "name": "virt-who-satotest.gsslab.brq.redhat.com-1"
~~~

Against a hypervisor:
~~~
Hypervisor: virt-who-hypervisor.example.com-1 (hypervisor.json)
"""
virt::host_type : not present
virt::is_guest  : not present
virt            : not present
"""
~~~

If we could add "hypervisor" to host_type this might be sufficient to identify the different types.

// found some issues with is_virtual not being set for lots of VMs so modified the script 

This is as is and was not exhaustively tested, following is how we determine the type:
- if certname contains virt-who we identify the system as a hypervisor
- if is_guest is true we identify the system as a VM
- if host_type is Not Applicable we identify the system as physical 

Loop trough all hosts of the organization 1 and execute the script:
# for host_id in `hammer host list --organization-id 1 | cut -d "|" -f 1 | tail -n +4 | head -n -1`; do bash test.sh $host_id; done

contents of test.sh
~~~
####
#!/bin/bash

user='admin'
password='password'
satellite='localhost'
host_id=$1

echo "Performing check against $host_id :"
is_guest=`curl -X GET -s -k -u $user:$password https://$satellite/api/v2/hosts/$host_id | python -m json.tool | grep -i "is_guest" | cut -d ":" -f4| tr -d ',"'`
is_hypervisor=`curl -X GET -s -k -u $user:$password https://$satellite/api/v2/hosts/$host_id | python -m json.tool | grep certname | cut -d ":" -f 2 | tr -d '",' | grep virt-who`
is_physical=`curl -X GET -s -k -u $user:$password https://$satellite/api/v2/hosts/$host_id | python -m json.tool | grep host_type | cut -d ":" -f 4 | tr -d "\""`

## debug
#echo "is a guest: $is_guest"
#echo "is a hypervisor: $is_hypervisor"
#echo "host type: $is_physical"
##

if [[ "$is_hypervisor" == *"virt-who"* ]]; then
            echo "This host is a hypervisor" 

elif [ "$is_physical" = " Not Applicable" ]; then
            echo "This is a physical machine"

elif [ "$is_guest" = " true" ]; then
            echo "This is a virtual machine"
else
            echo "I don't know, probably the subscription-manager facts for the host have not been uploaded to Satellite"
fi

####

~~~

Isn't this partially a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431232?

The Satellite Team is attempting to provide an accurate backlog of bugzilla requests which we feel will be resolved in the next few releases. We do not believe this bugzilla will meet that criteria, and have plans to close it out in 1 month. This is not a reflection on the validity of the request, but a reflection of the many priorities for the product. If you have any concerns about this, feel free to contact Red Hat Technical Support or your account team. If we do not hear from you, we will close this bug out. Thank you.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1431232 ***

You can also search hosts by "hypervisor = true/false" and "facts.virt::is_guest = true" or other facts sources (puppet/ansible/subscription-manager)