Hi folks,

Every time I get an ironic switchover I end up with a few resource provider errors as follows.

2020-06-10 05:11:28.129 75837 INFO nova.compute.resource_tracker [req-eac491b2-dd72-4466-b37e-878dbf40cda5 - - - - -] Compute node record created for sc-ironic06.nvc.nvidia.com:7c95f255-3c5

4-46ab-87cf-0b1707971e9c with uuid: 1b0b74d2-d0d4-4637-b7ea-3adaa58cac2e

2020-06-10 05:11:28.502 75837 ERROR nova.scheduler.client.report [req-eac491b2-dd72-4466-b37e-878dbf40cda5 - - - - -] [req-d8af2589-8c75-427c-a7b1-d5270840a4c8] Failed to create resource provider record in placement API for UUID 1b0b74d2-d0d4-4637-b7ea-3adaa58cac2e. Got 409: {"errors": [{"status": 409, "request_id": "req-d8af2589-8c75-427c-a7b1-d5270840a4c8", "detail": "There was a conflict when trying to complete your request.\n\n Conflicting resource provider name: 7c95f255-3c54-46ab-87cf-0b1707971e9c already exists.  ", "title": "Conflict"}]}.

2020-06-10 05:12:49.463 75837 ERROR nova.scheduler.client.report [req-eac491b2-dd72-4466-b37e-878dbf40cda5 - - - - -] [req-ffd13abc-08f3-47cd-a224-a07183b066ec] Failed to create resource provider record in placement API for UUID 1b0b74d2-d0d4-4637-b7ea-3adaa58cac2e. Got 409: {"errors": [{"status": 409, "request_id": "req-ffd13abc-08f3-47cd-a224-a07183b066ec", "detail": "There was a conflict when trying to complete your request.\n\n Conflicting resource provider name: 7c95f255-3c54-46ab-87cf-0b1707971e9c already exists.  ", "title": "Conflict"}]}.

So far the only way that works for me to fix these is to un-enroll and then re-enroll the node.

Is there a simpler way to fix this?

Thanks,

Fred.