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Bug #3855

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Rudder causes RHEL nodes to be blacklisted in RHN due to intensive yum usage

Added by Dennis Cabooter over 10 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

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Description

Twelve of our RHEL nodes are managed by Rudder. Since Rudder executes Yum many times a day, RHN blacklists that twelve nodes every week. We already tried to set "Section: Check interval" > "Check package statuses every (minutes): " to 60 minutes. However, this only slows down the problem. To "solve" this problem we have to unregister and reregister all twelve machines every week, which is quitte annoying.

- What exactly happens is described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824663.
- I can't find anything about this problem related to Cfengine. However, the one node not managed by Rudder doesn't have the problem at all.
- I found something about this problem related to Puppet: http://code.ohloh.net/file?fid=kzak1FGMdZUOw6az9Ka_k1whGic&cid=e5mmST0PD9o&s=&fp=274571&mpundefined=&projSelected=true#L0. However, it doesn't seem to be an official Puppet solution.
- We use a local RHEL yum mirror, so we can upgrade without using RHN. I'm not sure if disabling the RHN plugin is a solution for nodes registered to RHN without a local yum mirror.
- It would be nice to be able to have the RHN plugin enabled on a node while it's managed by Rudder. However, I haven't found a solution other then disabling it.


Subtasks 1 (0 open1 closed)

Bug #4898: The rudder_yum package method fails due to a wrong attribute presenceReleasedJonathan CLARKE2014-05-27Actions

Related issues 3 (0 open3 closed)

Related to Rudder - User story #3490: Adapt the generic package_method from the cfengine_stdlib with individual package_changesRejectedActions
Related to Rudder - Bug #4892: Some Techniques are using insidiously (or not) package manager without package_method 'rudder_yum' on RHEL leading to a blacklist from RHNRejectedActions
Has duplicate Rudder - Bug #4891: Techniques Inventory, System and NTP use type promises 'packages' and could blacklist from RHNRejectedJonathan CLARKE2014-05-23Actions
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