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Uyuni Community Hours 30.04.2021
by Pau Garcia 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Join us one more month to learn and discuss about Uyuni. Agenda will be published in the Uyuni wiki: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/wiki/Uyuni-Community-Hours ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MzYzMzY2MDQtNjQwYS00…> Or call in (audio only) +34 917 94 59 77,,212741555#<tel:+34917945977,,212741555#> Spain, Madrid Phone Conference ID: 212 741 555# Find a local number<https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/58c3986f-4c3a-4b77-b4e8-f431171ef66d?id=…> | Reset PIN<https://mysettings.lync.com/pstnconferencing> Learn More<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=83d1ce03-a2c8-4530-…> ________________________________________________________________________________

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A question on Configurations - Locally managed files.
by Simon Avery 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Hello, Yesterday I got in a bit of a pickle with Uyuni and through my own fault, managed - in relatively few clicks - to add some new files to an existing Configuration channel and set them as "Locally managed" on almost 200 machines. Once I understood my mistake (I wanted to push a new version of existing files), I tried to revert this mistake but I could not find a way to do so globally. The only way I could see to do this was to visit each machine in Uyuni, select the three files one at a time and delete the record for that machine. I did actually try to do this, but Uyuni becomes unresponsive when you have over a hundred browser tabs open to it... Deleting the files from the channel didn't remove the association on the machines, which I expected. Re-adding the files caused the new record to assume the same, and they immediately set as Locally managed, suggesting the link is the file+path on the machines. I searched for some time to find a way to remove this globally but was unsuccessful. Eventually, as I as pressed for time, I restored a backup of Uyuni and re-added the files as centrally managed which worked fine. So my question: Was I being dim and there is a way to globally change what Uyuni records as "Locally managed" configuration files - if so, how? Or is this a "We didn't think users could be so silly so we didn't allow for it" situation? Thanks Simon Avery

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Host-based pillars
by jm+github＠roth.lu 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hello, How can assign custom metadata to a host? (custom key/value pairs for example) I know I can define a pillar manually in Salt master /srv/pillar. However it would be great to just be able to assign custom values/pillars to a host in the GUI such that I can pick those up in my states. I know I can include this myself in the GUI by using forms. But that's not what I mean because I would have to "ask the same question" in every form where this information is required. Instead, I just want these custom attributes derived from the host, plain and simple. Any idea? Thanks.

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Mandatory and Optional SUSE channels
by Tim Shaw 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Hello I'm puzzled as to how to add optional channels to an existing product in 2012.03 I have a product to which I am subscribed - Open Enterprise Server 2018 SP2 It has mandatory channels which are all there and in sync - but now I need to add a specific optional channel from the same product - there are many listed... I cannot see any way to do this in the GUI - is that right? Can it be done from the CLI I cannot recall whether,l when I added this channel a year ago through the GUI, I was ever given an option to add optional channels or not... Can anyone advise please? T *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* ___________________________________________________________ TIM SHAW - Deputy Director - Network Services Medical Sciences Division - University of Oxford email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk tel : +44 (0)1865 289480

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Google Season of Docs: ideas for Uyuni?
by Pau Garcia 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hello We are going to apply to Google Season of Docs, to improve the existing documentation or write new documentation. What is missing? What can be improved? What can be enhanced? Please come up with ideas until Tuesday next week (16.03.2021). Thank you Pau Garcia Quiles SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager Phone: +34 91 048 7632 SUSE Software Solutions Spain

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Uyuni accepted in Google Summer of Code 2021
by Pau Garcia 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hello For the second year, we are participating in Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of openSUSE. Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 10 week programming project during their break from school. Students receive a stipend of USD 1,500-3,300, depending on their country of residence. Here you can see a list of the ideas we proposed but you can of course propose new ideas: https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/labels/Uyuni If you are interested in participating, or know someone who is, get in touch with us early, via mailing list or GitHub issues linked above! Thank you Pau Garcia Quiles SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager Phone: +34 91 048 7632 SUSE Software Solutions Spain

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[Looking for ideas] Editor integration of Uyuni
by Dan Čermák 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi list, I wanted to kick off a discussion about a potential integration of Uyuni with some text editors/IDEs and start collecting ideas. And this is where you come in ;-) So please, tell me: what is your favorite editor that you'd like to use to interact with Uyuni or SUMA? What kind of integration would you find useful? I've already asked around a bit and the following ideas came up: - better autocompletion & code smarts for writing salt states (e.g. via a language server protocol server[1]) - autocompletion for kiwi templates, autoyast profiles and Dockerfiles with support for software channel information - trigger certain actions directly from the editor, e.g. build an OS image But please think of your dream setup here and be just limited by your imagination :) Have a nice weekend, Dan Footnotes: [1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ -- Dan Čermák <dcermak(a)suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer

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Re: Post 2021.02 upgrade issues
by Tim Shaw 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Julio Ah! - this gave me the clue I was looking for I had somehow failed to set this repo up for scheduled synchronisation with the result that the new salt packages were not availabe My fault - and many thanks for the guidance! T *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* ___________________________________________________________ TIM SHAW - Deputy Director - Network Services Medical Sciences Division - University of Oxford email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk tel : +44 (0)1865 289480 >>> Julio González Gil <jgonzalez(a)suse.com> 05/03/2021 16:35 >>> I don't recall we ever shipped Salt 2019 to Stable. Maybe you got those packages from the "Master" client tools? Those client tools are not production ready. Please check what repositories you are using on that CentOS7 client (and any other CentOS7 clients). Make sure they are the Stable repositories. If they are not, change the CentoS7 clients to the Stable repositories (you can use "System Set Manager" if you want to change several clients at the same time) Then update the salt packages at the CentOS7 clients (you will get salt 3000), and the problem should go away. On viernes, 5 de marzo de 2021 17:18:39 (CET) Tim Shaw wrote: > Julio > > Many thanks - here is the result > > salt-2019.2.3-18.1.uyuni.x86_64 > python2-salt-2019.2.3-18.1.uyuni.x86_64 > salt-minion-2019.2.3-18.1.uyuni.x86_64 > > T > > *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* > ___________________________________________________________ > TIM SHAW - Deputy Director - Network Services > Medical Sciences Division - University of Oxford > email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk > tel : +44 (0)1865 289480 > > >>> Julio González Gil <jgonzalez(a)suse.com> 05/03/2021 14:51 >>> > > Can you provide the output of: > > rpm ‑qa|grep salt > > At that CentOS7 minion? > > On viernes, 5 de marzo de 2021 15:05:48 (CET) Tim Shaw wrote: > > Hello > > > > Thanks to all who offered advice during the very long 13 hour > > postgres > > > schema update on my Uyuni system! > > > > Since the update completed I've been testing things today and the > > first > > > issue I see is that hitherto trouble free CentOS7 client systems will > > now > > > no longer apply patches scheduled from Uyuni. If the packages rather > > than > > > the patches are scheduled there is no problem. > > > > SLES based systems appear to be patching just fine.... > > > > The errors look like this: > > > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: [ERROR ] An exception occurred > > in this > > > state: Traceback (most recent call last): Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix > > salt‑minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/state.py", > > line > > > 1939, in call Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: ret = > > self.states[cdata['full']](*cdata['args'], **cdata['kwargs']) Mar 5 > > 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/loader.py", line 2006, in > > wrapper > > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: return f(*args, **kwargs) > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/states/pkg.py", line 2160, in > > patch_installed Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: targets = > > _find_advisory_targets(name, advisory_ids, **kwargs) Mar 5 13:40:24 > > zabbix > > > salt‑minion: File > > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/states/pkg.py", > > > line 386, in _find_advisory_targets Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix > > salt‑minion: > > cur_patches = __salt__['pkg.list_installed_patches'](**kwargs) Mar > > 5 > > > 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/modules/yumpkg.py", line 3273, > > in > > > list_installed_pat ches > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: return > > _get_patches(installed_only=True) > > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/modules/yumpkg.py", line 3222, > > in > > > _get_patches Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: line).groups() > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object > > has no > > > attribute 'groups' > > > > Can anyone offer any ideas as to where to start troubleshooting this > > please > > > (rebooting the CentOS7 client makes no difference) ? > > > > T > > > > *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* > > ___________________________________________________________ > > TIM SHAW ‑ Deputy Director ‑ Network Services > > Medical Sciences Division ‑ University of Oxford > > email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk > > tel : +44 (0)1865 289480 > > ‑‑ > Julio González Gil > Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni > jgonzalez(a)suse.com -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Re: Post 2021.02 upgrade issues
by Tim Shaw 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Julio Many thanks - here is the result salt-2019.2.3-18.1.uyuni.x86_64 python2-salt-2019.2.3-18.1.uyuni.x86_64 salt-minion-2019.2.3-18.1.uyuni.x86_64 T *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* ___________________________________________________________ TIM SHAW - Deputy Director - Network Services Medical Sciences Division - University of Oxford email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk tel : +44 (0)1865 289480 >>> Julio González Gil <jgonzalez(a)suse.com> 05/03/2021 14:51 >>> Can you provide the output of: rpm ‑qa|grep salt At that CentOS7 minion? On viernes, 5 de marzo de 2021 15:05:48 (CET) Tim Shaw wrote: > Hello > > Thanks to all who offered advice during the very long 13 hour postgres > schema update on my Uyuni system! > > Since the update completed I've been testing things today and the first > issue I see is that hitherto trouble free CentOS7 client systems will now > no longer apply patches scheduled from Uyuni. If the packages rather than > the patches are scheduled there is no problem. > > SLES based systems appear to be patching just fine.... > > The errors look like this: > > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: [ERROR ] An exception occurred in this > state: Traceback (most recent call last): Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix > salt‑minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/state.py", line > 1939, in call Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: ret = > self.states[cdata['full']](*cdata['args'], **cdata['kwargs']) Mar 5 > 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/loader.py", line 2006, in wrapper > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: return f(*args, **kwargs) > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/states/pkg.py", line 2160, in > patch_installed Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: targets = > _find_advisory_targets(name, advisory_ids, **kwargs) Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix > salt‑minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/states/pkg.py", > line 386, in _find_advisory_targets Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: > cur_patches = __salt__['pkg.list_installed_patches'](**kwargs) Mar 5 > 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/modules/yumpkg.py", line 3273, in > list_installed_pat ches > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: return _get_patches(installed_only=True) > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/site‑packages/salt/modules/yumpkg.py", line 3222, in > _get_patches Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: line).groups() > Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt‑minion: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no > attribute 'groups' > > Can anyone offer any ideas as to where to start troubleshooting this please > (rebooting the CentOS7 client makes no difference) ? > > T > > *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* > ___________________________________________________________ > TIM SHAW ‑ Deputy Director ‑ Network Services > Medical Sciences Division ‑ University of Oxford > email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk > tel : +44 (0)1865 289480 ‑‑ Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Post 2021.02 upgrade issues
by Tim Shaw 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Hello Thanks to all who offered advice during the very long 13 hour postgres schema update on my Uyuni system! Since the update completed I've been testing things today and the first issue I see is that hitherto trouble free CentOS7 client systems will now no longer apply patches scheduled from Uyuni. If the packages rather than the patches are scheduled there is no problem. SLES based systems appear to be patching just fine.... The errors look like this: Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: [ERROR ] An exception occurred in this state: Traceback (most recent call last): Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 1939, in call Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: ret = self.states[cdata['full']](*cdata['args'], **cdata['kwargs']) Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/loader.py", line 2006, in wrapper Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: return f(*args, **kwargs) Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/states/pkg.py", line 2160, in patch_installed Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: targets = _find_advisory_targets(name, advisory_ids, **kwargs) Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/states/pkg.py", line 386, in _find_advisory_targets Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: cur_patches = __salt__['pkg.list_installed_patches'](**kwargs) Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/modules/yumpkg.py", line 3273, in list_installed_pat ches Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: return _get_patches(installed_only=True) Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/modules/yumpkg.py", line 3222, in _get_patches Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: line).groups() Mar 5 13:40:24 zabbix salt-minion: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups' Can anyone offer any ideas as to where to start troubleshooting this please (rebooting the CentOS7 client makes no difference) ? T *Please note I am not normally in the office on Mondays or Fridays* ___________________________________________________________ TIM SHAW - Deputy Director - Network Services Medical Sciences Division - University of Oxford email : tim.shaw(a)medsci.ox.ac.uk tel : +44 (0)1865 289480

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