Bug 190788 - Satellite tries to reinstall on multihomed system after kickstarting a client
Summary: Satellite tries to reinstall on multihomed system after kickstarting a client
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Server
Version: 400
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike McCune
QA Contact: Beth Nackashi
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Blocks: rhn410-kickstart
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Reported: 2006-05-05 06:38 UTC by Roel Gloudemans
Modified: 2007-07-31 15:29 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: rhn410
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-07-19 21:06:52 UTC
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Description Roel Gloudemans 2006-05-05 06:38:50 UTC
Description of the problem:
We have done a succesful satellite installation and synchronisation. The system
we use has 2 network interfaces, one exposed to the global user lan. This
interface is registered in DNS and is used for the RHN website. The other
interface is on the management LAN and is not registered in DNS. This interface
is also used for kickstarting system.

The URL for the kickstart is based on the IP address of the interface. Now when
you try to login to the satellite (RHN website) after a kickstart, you get
confronted with the installation interface. No matter what you do, the satellite
insists on being installed.

Since this bug is blocking rollout of at least 60 systems it is critical for us
that it get's solved.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite server 4.0.6 running on RHEL AS 3 Update 6

How reproducible:
Eacht time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install satellite using DNS name
2.Kickstart from IP number
3.Try to login to the RHN website
  
Actual results:
Satellite wants to be installed again

Expected results:
Normal login screen

Comment 5 Vlady Zlatkin 2006-07-03 21:48:32 UTC
I don't understand this bug 100%, but I'll try to write a testplan so this can
be tested.

-find a machine with multiple nics. 
-disable the second nic, give an ip and dns name to the first
(if you set it to dhcp in our lab this will work automatically, dhcp36-xxx)
-install a satellite using this hostname
-bring up the second nic
(does this nic need to be on a different subnet?)
(why does it matter that the second ip does not have an associated hostname?)
-create a kickstart profile, for the distribution url use the ip of the second
nic and not the default hostname 
-kickstart a machine to that profile
-goto the webui

Comment 8 Beth Nackashi 2006-07-05 22:43:41 UTC
moving to verified -- accessing the satellite UI via the IP address of the
second ethernet device no longer brings up the installer UI

Comment 9 Beth Nackashi 2006-07-19 21:06:52 UTC
moving to closed - currentrelease


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