Filter hosts registered to Red Hat Satellite 6.4 as per the status of job executed.

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.4

Issue

• How to filter hosts as per the status of jobs executed on them?
• Using execution_status = error shows incorrect results.

Resolution

To view the status of jobs executed on the hosts on Red Hat Satellite 6.4:

• On the Satellite WebUI:
  - Navigate to, Monitor -> Jobs -> Select the job -> In the search bar for filter run " job_invocation.result = status " to obtain the list.
  - Replace status with success, cancelled, pending or failed.

• On the Satellite CLI:
  Note - Hammer output will simply show the number of hosts as per job execution status as below.

# hammer job-invocation list --search


-

ID | DESCRIPTION  | STATUS    | SUCCESS | FAILED | PENDING | TOTAL | START                  
-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-
6  | Run hostname | failed    | 3       | 19     | 0       | 22    | 2019-01-22 16:05:58 UTC

5  | Run hostname | failed    | 2       | 20     | 0       | 22    | 2019-01-22 14:14:58 UTC
-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Remote Execution Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Remote Execution Issues

Root Cause

• The filter "job_invocation.result = status" refers to the status of the particular job executed on any host.
• The filter "execution_status = error" refers to the status of the last job executed on the particular host.

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