[ovirt-users] Unprompted engine VdsDeploy -- updating a package on host?

[Derek Atkins]

Created https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1405838

Unfortunately the VDSM log rolled over about 36 hours ago so I don't
have the vdsm log from the time this occurred.

-derek

Yaniv Dary <ydary at redhat.com> writes:

> Host and engine logs.
>
> Yaniv Dary
> Technical Product Manager
> Red Hat Israel Ltd.
> 34 Jerusalem Road
> Building A, 4th floor
> Ra'anana, Israel 4350109
>
> Tel : +972 (9) 7692306
>         8272306
> Email: ydary at redhat.com
> IRC : ydary
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>     Thanks.
>     I'll do that
>     What logs should I attach?
>    
>     -derek
>    
>     Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>    
>     ----- Reply message -----
>     From: "Yaniv Dary" <ydary at redhat.com>
>     To: "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>
>     Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>     Subject: [ovirt-users] Unprompted engine VdsDeploy -- updating a package
>     on host?
>     Date: Sun, Dec 18, 2016 8:38 AM
>    
>     I don't know. We do not do automatic updates.
>     This is even not recommended unless the host is on maintenance.
>     You can open a bug and we can have a look.
>
>     Yaniv Dary
>     Technical Product Manager
>     Red Hat Israel Ltd.
>     34 Jerusalem Road
>     Building A, 4th floor
>     Ra'anana, Israel 4350109
>     
>     Tel : +972 (9) 7692306
>             8272306
>     Email: ydary at redhat.com
>     IRC : ydary
>
>     On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>    
>         Hi,
>        
>         If it's user-initiated, how do I see who initiated it?  I was in bed
>         when
>         it happened so I know it wasn't me.  And I don't have any other admin
>         users.
>        
>         Looking in my engine.log file I see:
>        
>         2016-12-12 23:16:46,941 INFO
>         [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.hostdeploy.VdsDeployBase]
>         (DefaultQuartzScheduler9) [4eb758cf] Connected to host HOST.DOM.AIN
>         with
>         SSH key fingerprint: SHA256:<removed>
>         2016-12-12 23:16:47,020 INFO
>         [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.hostdeploy.VdsDeployBase]
>         (DefaultQuartzScheduler9) [4eb758cf] Installation of HOST.DOM.AIN.
>         Executing command via SSH umask 0077; MYTMP="$(TMPDIR="${OVIRT_TMPDIR}
>         "
>         mktemp -d -t ovirt-XXXXXXXXXX)"; trap "chmod -R u+rwX \"${MYTMP}\" >
>         /dev/null 2>&1; rm -fr \"${MYTMP}\" > /dev/null 2>&1" 0; tar
>         --warning=no-timestamp -C "${MYTMP}" -x &&  "${MYTMP}"/ovirt-host-mgmt
>         DIALOG/dialect=str:machine DIALOG/customization=bool:True <
>         /var/cache/ovirt-engine/ovirt-host-deploy.tar
>        
>         I can certainly send more than this... But I certainly didn't initiate
>         anything at 23:16, and I don't see anything in the event log in the
>         UI.  I
>         *DO* see "Host has available updates" message in the log from 23:17,
>         but
>         that doesn't explain why the system would auto-install (or
>         auto-update)
>         the 'iproute' package??
>        
>         [host]# tail -f /var/log/yum.log:
>         Dec 12 23:17:17 Updated: iproute-3.10.0-74.el7.x86_64
>        
>         Any ideas?
>        
>         Thanks,
>        
>         -derek
>        
>         On Wed, December 14, 2016 12:25 pm, Yaniv Dary wrote:
>         > No updates are run automatically. Is either a user initiate a
>         install or
>         > upgrade file.
>         >
>         > Yaniv Dary
>         > Technical Product Manager
>         > Red Hat Israel Ltd.
>         > 34 Jerusalem Road
>         > Building A, 4th floor
>         > Ra'anana, Israel 4350109
>         >
>         > Tel : +972 (9) 7692306
>         >         8272306
>         > Email: ydary at redhat.com
>         > IRC : ydary
>         >
>         > On Dec 13, 2016 17:50, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>         >
>         >> Hi,
>         >>
>         >> As I was going through my daily logwatch I noticed that a package
>         got
>         >> updated on my ovirt host last night.  But I know that I didn't do
>         that
>         >> on my own.  Looking at the logs I tracked it down to the hosted
>         engine
>         >> running a VdsDeploy process which updated the package on the host. 
>         I
>         >> know from the timestamp that it wasn't me that initiated that
>         action.
>         >>
>         >> Is the engine supposed to update packages on hosts unprompted like
>         that?
>         >>
>         >> -derek
>         >> --
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>         >
>
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>                Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>                derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>                Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>

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       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant