On 07/21/2014 01:29 PM, Dan Callaghan wrote:
Excerpts from Nick Coghlan's message of 2014-07-21 13:19 +10:00:
> I thought I had filed an RFE for this somewhere along the line, but
> apparently not...
>
> Currently, hardware scans are requested via the "--inventory" option to
> the "machine-test" subcommand. This is a little(!) obscure for a feature
> that powers the entire inventory search capability.
>
> What do folks the think of the idea of adding a dedicated
> "update-inventory" subcommand such that "bkr update-inventory"
was the
> equivalent of "bkr machine-test --inventory --ignore-system-status"?
Good idea.
Filed as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121462
I also found the RFE I was thinking of - it was the general one about
making hardware inventory easier to run. So that one now just covers
adding a button to the web UI, which we won't do until after the system
page changes have been merged for 0.18.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services
Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane
HSS Provisioning Architect