<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:34 PM, JR Aquino <<a href="mailto:JR.Aquino@citrix.com">JR.Aquino@citrix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Feb 22, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Marco Pizzoli wrote: > Hi guys, > I see that there's no way to rename a host once created. Same issue with host groups. > Could you confirm that it is by design and so I never will be able to do that? > > Thanks > Marco (wanting to rename everything :-( ) </div></div>Hi Marco. Yes, you do need to fully delete and uninstall a host from FreeIPA before readding it with a new name. <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/FreeIPA_Guide/renaming-machines.html" target="_blank">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/FreeIPA_Guide/renaming-machines.html</a> What may make this easier for you is a feature in 389 DS called Automember: <a href="http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Auto_Membership_Design" target="_blank">http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Auto_Membership_Design</a> Automember is a way to use regular expression to tie a given fqdn-type to a given hostgroup. So that when you 'add' a host with a similar name. say: <a href="http://webserver2.example.com" target="_blank">webserver2.example.com</a>, the host automatically ends up in the 'webservers' host group. If you wish for a bunch of hosts to be "renamed"/re-provisioned, and automatically assigned to a new hostgroup, you can predefine the regex mapping and make this process a little easier. FreeIPA provides a CLI (and in 2.1.90, a WebUI) for managing these entries. Here is the help doc from the cli tool: Auto Membership Rule. Bring clarity to the membership of hosts and users by configuring inclusive or exclusive regex paterns, you can automatically assign a new entries into a group or hostgroup based upon attribute information. A rule is directly associated with a group by name, so you cannot create a rule without an accompanying group or hostgroup A condition is a regular expression used by 389-ds to match a new incoming entry with an automember rule. If it matches an inclusive rule then the entry is added to the appropriate group or hostgroup. EXAMPLES: Create the initial group or hostgroup: ipa hostgroup-add --desc="Web Servers" webservers ipa group-add --desc="Developers" devel Create the initial rule: ipa automember-add --type=hostgroup webservers ipa automember-add --type=group devel Add a condition to the rule: ipa automember-add-condition --key=fqdn --type=hostgroup --inclusive-regex=^web[1-9]+\.example\.com webservers ipa automember-add-condition --key=manager --type=group --inclusive-regex=^uid=mscott devel Add an exclusive condition to the rule to prevent auto assignment: ipa automember-add-condition --key=fqdn --type=hostgroup --exclusive-regex=^web5\.example\.com webservers Add a host: ipa host-add <a href="http://web1.example.com" target="_blank">web1.example.com</a> Add a user: ipa user-add --first=Tim --last=User --password tuser1 --manager=mscott Verify automembership: ipa hostgroup-show webservers Host-group: webservers Description: Web Servers Member hosts: <a href="http://web1.example.com" target="_blank">web1.example.com</a> ipa group-show devel Group name: devel Description: Developers GID: 1004200000 Member users: tuser Remove a condition from the rule: ipa automember-remove-condition --key=fqdn --type=hostgroup --inclusive-regex=^web[1-9]+\.example\.com webservers Modify the automember rule: ipa automember-mod Set the default target group: ipa automember-default-group-set --default-group=webservers --type=hostgroup ipa automember-default-group-set --default-group=ipausers --type=group Set the default target group: ipa automember-default-group-remove --type=hostgroup ipa automember-default-group-remove --type=group Show the default target group: ipa automember-default-group-show --type=hostgroup ipa automember-default-group-show --type=group Find all of the automember rules: ipa automember-find Display a automember rule: ipa automember-show --type=hostgroup webservers ipa automember-show --type=group devel Delete an automember rule: ipa automember-del --type=hostgroup webservers ipa automember-del --type=group devel Topic commands: automember-add Add an automember rule. automember-add-condition Add conditions to an automember rule. automember-default-group-remove Remove default group for all unmatched entries. automember-default-group-set Set default group for all unmatched entries. automember-default-group-show Display information about the default automember groups. automember-del Delete an automember rule. automember-find Search for automember rules. automember-mod Modify an automember rule. automember-remove-condition Remove conditions from an automember rule. automember-show Display information about an automember rule. </blockquote></div> Hey, thanks a lot! Now I have something to read before falling asleep.... :-) Marco