RHBA-2017:3208 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-who packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Extended Update Support.

Description

The virt-who service collects information about the connection between the hypervisor and its virtual guests that are present in the system and provides the subscription manager with a mapping file containing the hypervisor-guest pairs. The service periodically queries the hypervisor to report its guests and changes the mapping file accordingly, making sure that the information stored in the subscription manager is accurate.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the virt-who service checked for asynchronous job completion every second. This is faster than necessary for the service to work and causes other services to perform slower.

Now, virt-who checks for job completion according to the following schedule: 15 seconds after job submission and then every 30 seconds after that until the job is completed. In addition, if the server sends an HTTP 429 response, virt-who now respects the included Retry-After header.

As a result, virt-who reporting is smoother and does not slow other services. (BZ#1507786)

Users of virt-who are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1507786 - Virt-who polls job status too quickly [rhel-6.9.z]

CVEs

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References

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