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#1

Hi Marek & Ivan,

I could not install the Plugin from nightly due to dependencies issues, so
I played a little bit with the old one from Stable (0.0.4):

Question:

  • for how long (day/month/years) are the Reports stored under “Monitor =>
    Jobs/Tasks”?
  • what value is needed under the "search Query" to perform a Job on a "Host
    Collections"?

Feature Request if possible: (please let me know if I should open a
ticket)

  • add "run_job" link to "Host Collections => Collection Actions"
  • add column "date & time" to "Job invocations" under "Monitor => Jobs"

Issues: (I did not find any bug report, but I´m not sure if its working on
newer release – so please let me know if I should open a ticket for the
issues):
-By running a command on more than 6 single hosts following message is
displayed
PGError: ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255) : INSERT
INTO "targetings" ("bookmark_id", "created_at", "resolved_at",
"search_query", "targeting_type", "updated_at", "user_id") VALUES ($1, $2,
$3, $4, $5, $6, $7) RETURNING "id"

  • SSH Connection for Remote Execution is failing if .bashrc on Remote Host
    has some echo command like ‘echo “hello”’
    Exception: TypeError no implicit conversion of Net::SSH::Connection::Channel
    into StringException: TypeError no implicit conversion of Net::SSH::
    Connection::Channel into String

Thanks,
Christian

#2

Another small feature request:
push remete execution script on client to other place (e.g: /var/tmp
instead of /tmp)

  • It could be for Security Reasons that /tmp is mounted as noexec and in
    that case the Remote Execution will fail with "Permission Denied" in Details
    even it was displayed as ok in the Overview
  • In addition it could be also that /tmp is mounted as tmpfs, in that case
    I will loose tracking too in case of a reboot…

best regards,
Christian

#3

> Hi Marek & Ivan,

> I could not install the Plugin from nightly due to dependencies issues, so I
> played a little bit with the old one from Stable (0.0.4):

> Question:
> - for how long ( day / month / years ) are the Reports stored under “ Monitor
> => Jobs / Tasks ”?
> - what value is needed under the "search Query" to perform a Job on a "Host
> Collections" ?

By default, we don't clean the tasks, but foreman-tasks provide a way how to clean old tasks, see
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-tasks#tasks-cleanup . I've failed an issue to track this

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Feature Request if possible: (please let me know if I should open a ticket)

  • add “run_job” link to “Host Collections => Collection Actions”
  • add column “date & time” to “Job invocations” under “Monitor => Jobs”

Issues: (I did not find any bug report, but I´m not sure if its working on
newer release – so please let me know if I should open a ticket for the
issues):

  • By running a command on more than 6 single hosts following message is
    displayed
    PGError : ERROR : value too long for type character varying ( 255 ) : INSERT
    INTO “targetings” ( “bookmark_id” , “created_at” , “resolved_at” ,
    “search_query” , “targeting_type” , “updated_at” , “user_id” ) VALUES ( $1 ,
    $2 , $3 , $4 , $5 , $6 , $7 ) RETURNING “id”
  • SSH Connection for Remote Execution is failing if . bashrc on Remote Host
    has some echo command like ‘ echo “ hello ”’
    Exception : TypeError no implicit conversion of Net :: SSH :: Connection ::
    Channel into StringException : TypeError no implicit conversion of Net ::
    SSH :: Connection :: Channel into String

Thanks,
Christian

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#4

> > Hi Marek & Ivan,
>

> > I could not install the Plugin from nightly due to dependencies issues, so
> > I
> > played a little bit with the old one from Stable (0.0.4):
>

> > Question:
>
> > - for how long ( day / month / years ) are the Reports stored under “
> > Monitor
> > => Jobs / Tasks ”?
>
> > - what value is needed under the "search Query" to perform a Job on a "Host
> > Collections" ?
>

> By default, we don't clean the tasks, but foreman-tasks provide a way how to
> clean old tasks, see
> https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-tasks#tasks-cleanup . I've failed an
> issue to track this

Premature send: Feature #11993: Cleanup configuration for execution jobs - Foreman Remote Execution - Foreman

> > Feature Request if possible: (please let me know if I should open a ticket)
>
> > - add "run_job" link to "Host Collections => Collection Actions"
>

This will be part of getting the support into Katello workflow

> > - add column "date & time" to "Job invocations" under "Monitor => Jobs"
>

Tracking in Feature #11994: Add invocation times to the job index page - Foreman Remote Execution - Foreman

> > Issues: (I did not find any bug report, but I´m not sure if its working on
> > newer release – so please let me know if I should open a ticket for the
> > issues):
>
> > - By running a command on more than 6 single hosts following message is
> > displayed
>
> > PGError : ERROR : value too long for type character varying ( 255 ) :
> > INSERT
> > INTO "targetings" ( "bookmark_id" , "created_at" , "resolved_at" ,
> > "search_query" , "targeting_type" , "updated_at" , "user_id" ) VALUES ( $1
> > ,
> > $2 , $3 , $4 , $5 , $6 , $7 ) RETURNING "id"
>

> > - SSH Connection for Remote Execution is failing if . bashrc on Remote Host
> > has some echo command like ‘ echo “ hello ”’
>
> > Exception : TypeError no implicit conversion of Net :: SSH :: Connection ::
> > Channel into StringException : TypeError no implicit conversion of Net ::
> > SSH :: Connection :: Channel into String
>

This was fixed in 0.0.5 and will be available in next version we backport to 1.9 repo (it takes a bit longer than expected due to the review process, but we should
have it in soon)

Thanks for the feedback!

– Ivan

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Thanks,

Christian

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#5

> Another small feature request:
> push remete execution script on client to other place (e.g: /var/tmp
> instead of /tmp)
> - It could be for Security Reasons that /tmp is mounted as noexec and in
> that case the Remote Execution will fail with "Permission Denied" in Details
> even it was displayed as ok in the Overview
> - In addition it could be also that /tmp is mounted as tmpfs, in that case
> I will loose tracking too in case of a reboot…

Good point, added an issue here Bug #11995: Make local_working_dir and remote_working_dir configurable and use better defaults - Foreman Remote Execution - Foreman

– Ivan

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best regards,
Christian

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