Bug 669484 - To run pulp-client on a different machine from the server, client.conf and agent.conf need to be edited
Summary: To run pulp-client on a different machine from the server, client.conf and ag...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Pulp
Classification: Retired
Component: user-experience
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
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Target Milestone: ---
: Sprint 20
Assignee: Jeff Ortel
QA Contact: Preethi Thomas
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Blocks: verified-to-close
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-13 19:14 UTC by Jay Dobies
Modified: 2013-09-09 16:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-02-17 16:51:52 UTC
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Description Jay Dobies 2011-01-13 19:14:08 UTC
I understand the distinction, but I'm a developer on the project. I don't think it's intuitive to the end user to tell them to edit a Pulp configuration file (/etc/pulp/client.conf) and a completely non-Pulp branded configuration file (/etc/gofer/agent.conf) in order to run a client on a different machine than the server. A "pulp user" probably won't know what gofer is or think to look there (the same argument can probably be applied to debugging issues as well).

I think that's such a common use case that we're not making intuitive enough for users to adopt. It should all be configured through one Pulp configuration file.

Comment 1 Jeff Ortel 2011-02-08 21:55:01 UTC
Agreed.

Updated plugin descriptor for the pulp (gofer) plugin to reference the (host) in /etc/pulp/client.conf.  This way, users only need to edit the pulp branded file.

Works in conjunction with the fix for bug 669498.  This should be intuitive for pulp users.  To point the client at a remote pulp server, the user does:

1) vi /etc/pulp/client.conf
2) service pulp-agent restart

Done!

I'll update the UG at the next community release.

Commit: 557a3aed6f2dbe58493a56ec2b2f2a3fa4167bf7

Comment 2 Jay Dobies 2011-02-09 15:35:55 UTC
Fixed in 0.136.

Comment 3 Preethi Thomas 2011-02-11 15:07:52 UTC
verified

[root@10 ~]# service pulp-agent restart
Stopping goferd                                            [FAILED]
Starting goferd                                            [  OK  ]
[root@10 ~]# rpm -q pulp
package pulp is not installed
[root@10 ~]# rpm -q pulp-client
pulp-client-0.0.137-1.fc14.noarch
[root@10 ~]#

Comment 4 Preethi Thomas 2011-02-17 16:51:52 UTC
Closing with community release 

pulp-0.0.139-1.fc14.noarch


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