[ovirt-users] engine randomly updated 1 package on all my hosts overnight

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> Can anyone just briefly tell me if this is expected behavior or not?
>
> I know you can tell the engine to update hosts, but nobody was using the
> engine and I see the engine logging in and the yum command being run so I am
> curious if this is expected or not?

It is, unless you have otopi-1.6.2 or later:

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

>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I received an alert from OSSEC HIDS that a package was installed at 00:59.
>> Nobody uses this infrastructure but me
>>
>> Upon investigation I find this
>>
>> Sep 14 00:59:18 ovirthost1 sshd[93263]: Accepted publickey for root from
>> 10.0.16.50 port 50197 ssh2: RSA
>> 1c:fc:0d:b8:40:2c:bf:87:f7:8f:b2:52:0b:c4:f6:4d
>> Sep 14 00:59:18 ovirthost1 sshd[93263]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
>> opened for user root by (uid=0)
>> Sep 14 00:59:46 ovirthost1 sshd[93263]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
>> closed for user root
>>
>> 10.0.16.50 is my ovirt engine
>>
>> And the yum log
>>
>> Sep 14 00:59:28 Updated: iproute-3.10.0-87.el7.x86_64
>>
>> However, what is baffling to me is that this is a cluster I setup about 9
>> months ago and have not updated at all (its a testing env for VM systems)
>>
>> Why would ovirt seemingly randomly update and install a package? I know
>> the engine checks for updates on hosts but this is the first time in my time
>> using ovirt that ovirt instructed a host to install a package. This occurred
>> on all of my ovirt nodes in this infrastructure (3)

Probably the reason this didn't happen before is a mere coincidence -
there are not many updates to 'iproute', or you did update it manually
in other cases, or something like that.

>>
>> ovirt Version 4.0.1.1-1.el7.centos

Most likely you have otopi-1.5.2, which does not have above bug fixed.

You might consider upgrading to oVirt 4.1.

Best,
-- 
Didi