Hi all,
When I toggle the 'unmanage host' button in 'edit host' screen, the
'operating system' tab and 'network' tab disappear, when toggle it('manage
host') again, the missing tabs come back. I found the interesting thing is:
even after unmanage and save the settings, a host's operating system and
network/IP are still in the particular host's summary screen.
So, what's the main purposes, and difference when a host is in a 'managed'
status vs. a 'unmanaged' status? and are the changes keep the same across
Foreman versions? Please shed a light. Thanks.
Best,
Thomas
Managed hosts are for provisioning support, while unmanaged hosts are
usually reporting and config management only.
Managed hosts will have DNS, DHCP, TFTP, Puppet CA and similar
orchestration records created, updated and deleted (if configured) when
the host in Foreman is updated.
The tabs are probably hidden as the network/OS details are usually only
used for provisioning, but they're probably being set by fact imports.
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On 19/07/16 21:10, Thomas Cheng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I toggle the 'unmanage host' button in 'edit host' screen, the
> 'operating system' tab and 'network' tab disappear, when toggle
> it('manage host') again, the missing tabs come back. I found the
> interesting thing is: even after unmanage and save the settings, a
> host's operating system and network/IP are still in the particular
> host's summary screen.
>
> So, what's the main purposes, and difference when a host is in a
> 'managed' status vs. a 'unmanaged' status? and are the changes keep the
> same across Foreman versions? Please shed a light. Thanks.
–
Dominic Cleal
dominic@cleal.org
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When I toggle the 'unmanage host' button in 'edit host' screen, the
> > 'operating system' tab and 'network' tab disappear, when toggle
> > it('manage host') again, the missing tabs come back. I found the
> > interesting thing is: even after unmanage and save the settings, a
> > host's operating system and network/IP are still in the particular
> > host's summary screen.
> >
> > So, what's the main purposes, and difference when a host is in a
> > 'managed' status vs. a 'unmanaged' status? and are the changes keep the
> > same across Foreman versions? Please shed a light. Thanks.
>
> Managed hosts are for provisioning support, while unmanaged hosts are
> usually reporting and config management only.
>
> Managed hosts will have DNS, DHCP, TFTP, Puppet CA and similar
> orchestration records created, updated and deleted (if configured) when
> the host in Foreman is updated.
>
> The tabs are probably hidden as the network/OS details are usually only
> used for provisioning, but they're probably being set by fact imports.
>
> Thanks a lot, Dominic, That's very clear and helpful.
The first time I saw a few hosts in this different status I got no clues at
all why they
came into being, and afraid that backend DB could be corrupt for that a few
particular hosts! so I toggled the tab 'manage/unmanage' and saw the
effect.
pretty amazing!
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On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 12:19:27 AM UTC-7, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> On 19/07/16 21:10, Thomas Cheng wrote:
–
Dominic Cleal
dom...@cleal.org <javascript:>
