Bug 1691418 - [RFE] Ability to restart the machine while the remote execution job is still acting as running - backend
Summary: [RFE] Ability to restart the machine while the remote execution job is still ...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1691453
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Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Remote Execution
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: satellite6-bugs
QA Contact: Peter Ondrejka
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Reported: 2019-03-21 14:59 UTC by Bryan Kearney
Modified: 2019-03-21 15:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-03-21 15:58:29 UTC
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Foreman Issue Tracker 26428 0 None None None 2019-03-21 14:59:29 UTC

Description Bryan Kearney 2019-03-21 14:59:28 UTC
Some scenarios in rex involve need to disconnect from network and continue some work offline. While we have support for `async`, it still marks the job as failed when the managed hosts goes offline.

With this feature, we should be able to take control over the job status from the remote host, so that the job is marked as running even when the host goes down temporary as part of execution of the job.

Example of such a template:

<pre><code>$CONTROL_SCRIPT manual-mode
cat <<HELP | $CONTROL_SCRIPT update >/dev/null 
The script has switched to manual-mode. It will be acting
as running after this script finishes.

The control script is available in \$CONTROL_SCRIPT
env varaible.

To send output data to the job, on can do something like this:

    echo Hello world | $CONTROL_SCRIPT update

To mark the script as finished, one can do

   $CONTROL_SCRIPT finish 0

there the second argument should be the exit code the 
script ended with.
HELP
</code></pre>

After running this, one should be able to go to the remote host, reboot it and the job should still be running until @$CONTROL_SCRIPT finish 0@ is finished. Additional output can be sent to the job with @echo Hello world | $CONTROL_SCRIPT update@

Additional note:

the satellite needs to be installed with @--foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh-async-ssh=true@ in order for this to work.

Comment 1 Bryan Kearney 2019-03-21 14:59:30 UTC
Created from redmine issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/26428

Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2019-03-21 15:58:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1691453 ***


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