Hi,

I'm hitting a problem when trying to update the redfish_password for an existing node. I'm curious to know if anyone else has encountered this problem. I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong or if there is a bug. Or if the problem is unique to my setup.

I have a node already added into ironic with all the driver details set, and things are working fine. I am able to run deployments.

Now I need to change the redfish password on the host. So I update the password for redfish access on the host, then use an 'openstack baremetal node set <node> --driver-info redfish_password=<newpass>' command to set the new redfish_password.

Once this has been done, deployment no longer works. I see redfish authentication errors in the logs and the operation fails. I waited a bit to see if there might just be a delay in updating the password, but after awhile it still didn't work.

I restarted the conductor, and after that things work fine again. So it seems like the password is cached or something. Is there a way to force the password to update? I even tried removing the redfish credentials and re-adding them, but that didn't work either. Only a conductor restart seems to make the new password work.

We are running Xena, using rpm installation on Oracle Linux 8.5.

Thanks in advance for any help with this issue.