Rudder

Rudder server 8.2.2

After removing techniques by using the GUI “Archive / Restore everything” to restore a previous GIT snapshot at a point in time when these techniques didn't yet exist :

• They are removed from the “Techniques” GUI page.
• But they still appear in the “techniques tree” in the “Reference technique library” (left pane)
• They are still present on the filesystem in /var/rudder/configuration-repository/techniques/ncf_techniques

• A subsequent attempt to import these techniques again from an archive using the API silently fails :
• It shows a success output :

root@server:/tmp# curl --insecure --header "X-API-Token: $(cat /var/rudder/run/api-token)" -X POST https://localhost/rudder/api/latest/archives/import --form "archive=@tech-ONLY_240502aa.zip" --form "merge=keep-rule-groups" 
{"action":"import","result":"success","data":{"success":true}}root@server:/tmp# 
root@server:/tmp# rudder server reload-techniques
ok: reload techniques from files.

• The webapp log shows an import success :

2025-01-02 10:15:44+0000 INFO  application.archive - Received a new policy archive 'tech-ONLY_240502aa.zip', processing
2025-01-02 10:15:48+0000 INFO  application.archive - Uploaded archive 'tech-ONLY_240502aa.zip' processed successfully
2025-01-02 10:15:48+0000 INFO  policy.generation - Start policy generation, checking updated rules
2025-01-02 10:15:49+0000 INFO  policy.generation - [metrics] Xmx:1 GB nodes:2 (cached:2) rules:4 (enabled:3) techniques:8 (enabled:8) directives:8 (enabled:8) groups:2 (dynamic:2) parameters:2
2025-01-02 10:15:49+0000 INFO  policy.generation - No node configuration was updated, no policies to write

• Still the imported techniques do not show up on the GUI “Techniques page”
• But they do still appear on the “Technique tree” page
• AND IT IS POSSIBLE to reactivate them by dragging them from the left pane to the right pane (Although the drag-drop process does not function quite well).