On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 12:19:27 AM UTC-7, Dominic Cleal wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
> --
> Dominic Cleal
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>
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