Creating a host using REST API on Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with error Medium cannot be blank.

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.3.1.

Issue

• Creating a host using REST API fails with error Medium can't be blank.

# curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X POST -u admin:redhat -k -d "{\"name\":\"testhost\",\"domain_name\":\"lab.example.com\",\"operatingsystem_name\":\"RHEL Server 7.5\",\"organization_id\":\"1\",\"mac\":\"52-54-00-57-83-33\",\"build\":true,\"ip\":\"192.168.X.X\",\"architecture_name\":\"x86_64\",\"ptable_name\":\"Kickstart default\",\"root_pass\":\"changeme\",\"location_id\":\"2\"}" https://satellite.lab.example.com/api/v2/hosts

{
  "error": {"id":null,"errors":{"medium_id":["can't be blank"]},"full_messages":["Medium can't be blank"]}
}

Resolution

• This is a known issue This content is not included.BZ #1575092 and has been escalated to the Red Hat Satellite 6 engineering team.

workaround

• Create a Host Group with the complete Operating System information and execute the following command with necessary changes:

curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X POST -u admin:redhat -k -d "{\"name\":\"testhost\",\"hostgroup_id\":\"2\",\"mac\":\"52-54-00-57-83-33\",\"build\":true,\"ip\":\"192.168.X.X\",\"organization_id\":\"1\",\"location_id\":\"2\"}" https://satellite.lab.example.com/api/v2/hosts

Note: For every Operating System to use there should be a separate Host Group.

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

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