[Satellite 6] Failed to delete a host in Satellite
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6.x
- VMWare
Issue
Deleting a content host in Satellite 6 WebUI fails with No error message returned
Resolution
Option 1
Grant the appropriate permissions for a Satellite user following this guide:
Option 2
Change the guest settings in Satellite from managed to unmanaged
The following Bugzilla has been created for this issue:
This bug has fixed in Satellite 6.4 with the below errata :
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
Root Cause
The guest is set as a Managed host in Satellite but Satellite does not have the permissions required to remove a host from your content-host (or VM host env)
A managed host is entirely managed by Satellite. This means Satellite requires permission to remove guests from the VM Content-Host environment
Diagnostic Steps
Check your foreman logs for the following error:
2019-03-13T13:33:12 [W|app|e436c] Failed to destroy a compute compute-resource (VMware) instance client.example.com: NoPermission: Permission to perform this operation was denied.
RbVmomi::Fault: NoPermission: Permission to perform this operation was denied.
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.10.0/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:63:in `parse_response'
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.10.0/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:92:in `call'
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.10.0/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:213:in `_call'
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.10.0/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:76:in `block (2 levels) in init'
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-2.3.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/vm_power_off.rb:13:in `vm_power_off'
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-2.3.0/lib/fog/vsphere/models/compute/server.rb:106:in `stop'
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-2.3.0/lib/fog/vsphere/models/compute/server.rb:125:in `destroy'
/usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb:473:in `destroy_vm'
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