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Switching to session auth solved the problem, and it seems like the better
way to go anyway for equipment that supports it. Thanks again for all your
help!

Wade

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 5:37 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just to provide a brief update for the mailing list. It looks like
> this is a case of use of Basic Auth with the BMC, where we were not
> catching the error properly... and thus not reporting the
> authentication failure to ironic so it would catch, and initiate a new
> client with the most up to date password. The default, typically used
> path is Session based authentication as BMCs generally handle internal
> session/user login tracking in a far better fashion. But not every BMC
> supports sessions.
>
> Fix in review[0] :)
>
> -Julia
> [0] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/sushy/+/850425
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:15 PM Julia Kreger
> <juliaashleykreger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Excellent, hopefully I'll be able to figure out why Sushy is not doing
> > the needful... Or if it is and Ironic is not picking up on it.
> >
> > Anyway, I've posted
> > https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ironic/+/850259 which might
> > handle this issue. Obviously a work in progress, but it represents
> > what I think is happening inside of ironic itself leading into sushy
> > when cache access occurs.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:04 PM Wade Albright
> > <the.wade.albright at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds good, I will do that tomorrow. Thanks Julia.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 3:27 PM Julia Kreger <
> juliaashleykreger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Debug would be best. I think I have an idea what is going on, and this
> > >> is a similar variation. If you want, you can email them directly to
> > >> me. Specifically only need entries reported by the sushy library and
> > >> ironic.drivers.modules.redfish.utils.
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 3:20 PM Wade Albright
> > >> <the.wade.albright at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm happy to supply some logs, what verbosity level should i use?
> And should I just embed the logs in email to the list or upload somewhere?
> > >> >
> > >> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 3:14 PM Julia Kreger <
> juliaashleykreger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> If you could supply some conductor logs, that would be helpful. It
> > >> >> should be re-authenticating, but obviously we have a larger bug
> there
> > >> >> we need to find the root issue behind.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 3:06 PM Wade Albright
> > >> >> <the.wade.albright at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > I was able to use the patches to update the code, but
> unfortunately the problem is still there for me.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > I also tried an RPM upgrade to the versions Julia mentioned had
> the fixes, namely Sushy 3.12.1 - Released May 2022 and Ironic 18.2.1 -
> Released in January 2022. But it did not fix the problem.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > I am able to consistently reproduce the error.
> > >> >> >  - step 1: change BMC password directly on the node itself
> > >> >> >  - step 2: update BMC password (redfish_password) in ironic with
> 'openstack baremetal node set <nodename> --driver-info
> redfish_password='newpass'
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > After step 1 there are errors in the logs entries like "Session
> authentication appears to have been lost at some point in time" and
> eventually it puts the node into maintenance mode and marks the power state
> as "none."
> > >> >> > After step 2 and taking the host back out of maintenance mode,
> it goes through a similar set of log entries puts the node into MM again.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > After the above steps, a conductor restart fixes the problem and
> operations work normally again. Given this it seems like there is still
> some kind of caching issue.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 6:01 PM Wade Albright <
> the.wade.albright at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Hi Julia,
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Thank you so much for the reply! Hopefully this is the issue.
> I'll try out the patches next week and report back. I'll also email you on
> Monday about the versions, that would be very helpful to know.
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Thanks again, really appreciate it.
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Wade
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 4:36 PM Julia Kreger <
> juliaashleykreger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> Greetings!
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> I believe you need two patches, one in ironic and one in sushy.
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> Sushy:
> > >> >> >>> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/sushy/+/832860
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> Ironic:
> > >> >> >>> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ironic/+/820588
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> I think it is variation, and the comment about working after
> you restart the conductor is the big signal to me. I’m on a phone on a bad
> data connection, if you email me on Monday I can see what versions the
> fixes would be in.
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> For the record, it is a session cache issue, the bug was that
> the service didn’t quite know what to do when auth fails.
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> -Julia
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 2:55 PM Wade Albright <
> the.wade.albright at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >>>> 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.
>
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