Hello,

every puppet or rhsm fact update will add all missing NICs but never
delete existings. You can turn off this behavior, it's a global
setting not sure how its named but it will prevent from any NIC to be
created by facts.

LZ

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:32 PM, 'Christian Schulze-Wiehenbrauk' via
Foreman users <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we run a foreman installation with katello to provision our openstack
> environment. Openstack has the side effect to create a vast amount of
> interfaces and bridges on the compute nodes, which then will be imported
> into foreman. I'm looking for a way to want to avoid this.
> I tried to configure this with foreman-rake.  This setting is now:
>
> foreman-rake -- config -k ignored_interface_identifiers
> ["lo","usb*","vnet*","macvtap*","_vdsmdummy_","veth*","docker*","br-*","tap*","qbr*","qvb*","qvo*","qr-*","qg-*","vlinuxbr*","vovsbr*","vxlan*","ovs-*"]
>
> This does not help unfortunately. So I would appreciate if someone could
> explain the workflow of how foreman creates the interfaces to me.
> What I mean, is that I don't understand under which circumstance foreman
> creates a new entry for an interfaces for a host in the database. Does this
> happen only if facts are imported, are only new facts considered or are
> older facts merged?
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
>
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