Foreman api not showing all facts?

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Hello,

I have a fresh installation of foreman 1.2 (installed via provided puppet
scripts). I have just added some hosts and now I wish to develop something
to query the facts of these hosts externally (via the api).

I am currently testing with curl, however the 'facts' call doesn't return
all of the facts for my hosts. I am using the following;

curl -u api_user:api_user -H 'Accept:application/json,version=2'
http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts

The output of this command is ('sensitive' information has been removed);

{"client.fqdn":{"macaddress_eth0":"","macaddress":"","bios_release_date":"07/09/2012","augeasversion":"0.9.0","processorcount":"1","physicalprocessorcount":"1","blockdevice_sr0_size":"1073741312","network_lo":"127.0.0.0","ipaddress_lo":"127.0.0.1","network_eth0":"","ipaddress_eth0":"","ipaddress":"","mtu_eth0":"1500","mtu_lo":"16436","facterversion":"1.7.2","rubyversion":"1.8.7","uptime_days":"2","ipaddress6_eth0":"","ipaddress6":"","blockdevice_sda_size":"21474836480"}}

However, if I browse to the host in the foreman UI (as 'api_user') I see
around 100 facts for this host.

I don't understand why I only see a subset of the hosts from the api?

The 'api_user' has 'Viewer' permissions assigned.

Can anyone shed any light on what I am experiencing?

Any hints are much appreciated!

Cheers,

Ben

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Hi Ben,

Both the UI and API paginate the results, but but it probably wasn't obvious with the API. For API v2, which still isn't final, I plan to add meta data to the results such as

{
"total": 10,
"limit": 2,
"offset" 3,
"results": [

Then, it will be obvious how much of the results were returned.

You can add URL parameters :page and :per_page, so to get all the facts in one call, you can do this

http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts?per_page=10000

The default per_page can be changed in Settings::General.entries_per_page

Regards,

Joseph Magen
Redhat

¡¡¡ ----- Original Message ----- From: "bmorrice" To: foreman-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:43:58 PM Subject: [foreman-users] foreman api not showing all facts?

Hello,

I have a fresh installation of foreman 1.2 (installed via provided puppet
scripts). I have just added some hosts and now I wish to develop something
to query the facts of these hosts externally (via the api).

I am currently testing with curl, however the ‘facts’ call doesn’t return
all of the facts for my hosts. I am using the following;

curl -u api_user:api_user -H 'Accept:application/json,version=2’
http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts

The output of this command is (‘sensitive’ information has been removed);

{“client.fqdn”:{“macaddress_eth0”:"",“macaddress”:"",“bios_release_date”:“07/09/2012”,“augeasversion”:“0.9.0”,“processorcount”:“1”,“physicalprocessorcount”:“1”,“blockdevice_sr0_size”:“1073741312”,“network_lo”:“127.0.0.0”,“ipaddress_lo”:“127.0.0.1”,“network_eth0”:"",“ipaddress_eth0”:"",“ipaddress”:"",“mtu_eth0”:“1500”,“mtu_lo”:“16436”,“facterversion”:“1.7.2”,“rubyversion”:“1.8.7”,“uptime_days”:“2”,“ipaddress6_eth0”:"",“ipaddress6”:"",“blockdevice_sda_size”:“21474836480”}}

However, if I browse to the host in the foreman UI (as ‘api_user’) I see
around 100 facts for this host.

I don’t understand why I only see a subset of the hosts from the api?

The ‘api_user’ has ‘Viewer’ permissions assigned.

Can anyone shed any light on what I am experiencing?

Any hints are much appreciated!

Cheers,

Ben

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This is great Joseph. Thank-you for your explanation!

Cheers,

Ben

¡¡¡ On Sunday, 28 July 2013 09:24:37 UTC+2, Joseph Magen wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > Both the UI and API paginate the results, but but it probably wasn't > obvious with the API. For API v2, which still isn't final, I plan to add > meta data to the results such as > > { > "total": 10, > "limit": 2, > "offset" 3, > "results": [ > > Then, it will be obvious how much of the results were returned. > > You can add URL parameters :page and :per_page, so to get all the facts in > one call, you can do this > > http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts?per_page=10000 > > The default per_page can be changed in Settings::General.entries_per_page > > Regards, > > Joseph Magen > Redhat > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "bmorrice" <ben.m...@gmail.com > > To: forema...@googlegroups.com > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:43:58 PM > Subject: [foreman-users] foreman api not showing all facts? > > Hello, > > I have a fresh installation of foreman 1.2 (installed via provided puppet > scripts). I have just added some hosts and now I wish to develop something > to query the facts of these hosts externally (via the api). > > I am currently testing with curl, however the 'facts' call doesn't return > all of the facts for my hosts. I am using the following; > > curl -u api_user:api_user -H 'Accept:application/json,version=2' > http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts > > The output of this command is ('sensitive' information has been removed); > > {"client.fqdn":{"macaddress_eth0":"","macaddress":"","bios_release_date":"07/09/2012","augeasversion":"0.9.0","processorcount":"1","physicalprocessorcount":"1","blockdevice_sr0_size":"1073741312","network_lo":"127.0.0.0","ipaddress_lo":"127.0.0.1","network_eth0":"","ipaddress_eth0":"","ipaddress":"","mtu_eth0":"1500","mtu_lo":"16436","facterversion":"1.7.2","rubyversion":"1.8.7","uptime_days":"2","ipaddress6_eth0":"","ipaddress6":"","blockdevice_sda_size":"21474836480"}} > > > However, if I browse to the host in the foreman UI (as 'api_user') I see > around 100 facts for this host. > > I don't understand why I only see a subset of the hosts from the api? > > The 'api_user' has 'Viewer' permissions assigned. > > Can anyone shed any light on what I am experiencing? > > Any hints are much appreciated! > > Cheers, > > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-user...@googlegroups.com . > To post to this group, send email to forema...@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >
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Hi,

I have fresh install foreman 1.5.1. I see some hosts in foreman UI does not
show facts, however http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts return the
facts. Not sure why UI does not show facts.

-DD

¡¡¡ On Monday, July 29, 2013 12:02:54 AM UTC-7, bmorrice wrote: > > This is great Joseph. Thank-you for your explanation! > > Cheers, > > Ben > > On Sunday, 28 July 2013 09:24:37 UTC+2, Joseph Magen wrote: >> >> Hi Ben, >> >> Both the UI and API paginate the results, but but it probably wasn't >> obvious with the API. For API v2, which still isn't final, I plan to add >> meta data to the results such as >> >> { >> "total": 10, >> "limit": 2, >> "offset" 3, >> "results": [ >> >> Then, it will be obvious how much of the results were returned. >> >> You can add URL parameters :page and :per_page, so to get all the facts >> in one call, you can do this >> >> http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts?per_page=10000 >> >> The default per_page can be changed in Settings::General.entries_per_page >> >> Regards, >> >> Joseph Magen >> Redhat >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "bmorrice" >> To: forema...@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:43:58 PM >> Subject: [foreman-users] foreman api not showing all facts? >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a fresh installation of foreman 1.2 (installed via provided puppet >> scripts). I have just added some hosts and now I wish to develop >> something >> to query the facts of these hosts externally (via the api). >> >> I am currently testing with curl, however the 'facts' call doesn't return >> all of the facts for my hosts. I am using the following; >> >> curl -u api_user:api_user -H 'Accept:application/json,version=2' >> http://foreman/api/hosts/client.fqdn/facts >> >> The output of this command is ('sensitive' information has been removed); >> >> {"client.fqdn":{"macaddress_eth0":"","macaddress":"","bios_release_date":"07/09/2012","augeasversion":"0.9.0","processorcount":"1","physicalprocessorcount":"1","blockdevice_sr0_size":"1073741312","network_lo":"127.0.0.0","ipaddress_lo":"127.0.0.1","network_eth0":"","ipaddress_eth0":"","ipaddress":"","mtu_eth0":"1500","mtu_lo":"16436","facterversion":"1.7.2","rubyversion":"1.8.7","uptime_days":"2","ipaddress6_eth0":"","ipaddress6":"","blockdevice_sda_size":"21474836480"}} >> >> >> However, if I browse to the host in the foreman UI (as 'api_user') I see >> around 100 facts for this host. >> >> I don't understand why I only see a subset of the hosts from the api? >> >> The 'api_user' has 'Viewer' permissions assigned. >> >> Can anyone shed any light on what I am experiencing? >> >> Any hints are much appreciated! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ben >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Foreman users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to foreman-user...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to forema...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >>