Incorrect parent values when using cross-model relations

Bug #1939068 reported by Connor Chamberlain
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Nagios Charm
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Bug Description

Nagios sets a "parents" value in host definitions so that when a host dies and alerts, the containers running on that host do not also alert. This functionality works fine when charm-nagios and charm-nrpe are related within the same model, but this value is never set properly when a cross-model relation is used.

When these two charms are related, the following takes place:
1. Each nrpe unit provides its machine id and hostname and to nagios
2. Nagios extracts the parent's machine id from the unit's id, if it's an lxd
3. If that parent machine id exists in a dictionary of hosts, then the parent relationship is set up

This process can break down in cases where nagios is working with multiple models with overlapping machine ids (which is very likely). As an example, it's possible for machine "3/lxd/0" in model "openstack" to be given machine 3 in the "lma" model as a parent, which it should be machine 3 in the "openstack" model.

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summary: - Parents are missing from host definitions
+ Incorrect parent values when using cross-model relations
description: updated
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Paul Goins (vultaire) wrote (last edit ):

I think one way to avoid this problem is to use a different nagios_host_context on each model, and have the model name be part of that context.

I see concretely where we've done this for a cloud where keystone is deployed to both openstack and kubernetes models. Hostnames come up as e.g. <customer>-<cloud>-openstack-keystone-1 and <customer>-<cloud>-k8s-keystone-1, with no collision.

Celia Wang (ziyiwang)
Changed in charm-nagios:
status: New → Fix Released
milestone: none → 21.10
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