Netbox plugin: synchronising migrated VMs deletes information instead of changing it

[lucasteinke]

Describe the bug
If you migrate a VM from one cluster to the other and then sync all changes to netbox, the plugin recreates the VM in Netbox (#6038) and deletes the "old" instance of the VM. This also deletes every piece of information manually entered.

To Reproduce

1. create a VM in XOA
2. sync to Netbox
3. migrate VM to other cluster/pool
4. sync both the old and new cluster/pool to Netbox
5. check changelog → see old duplicate VM was deleted.

Expected behavior
The VM should not be deleted but edited based on the UUID field when the migration is done, so the parent pool (or, as it's called in Netbox, cluster) is changed to be the new pool. I expect the UUID to actually be unique and Netbox to reflect the actual state XOA is in when it's synchronised.

[ITJamie]

We just lost a bunch of custom added data to the virtual machines because of this. the vm should be updated and have its assigned cluster changed NOT the whole object deleted and re-created.

vms shouldnt be deleted & re-created in netbox if migrated. simple updating the assigned cluster is all thats needed

[lucasteinke]

@ITJamie I recently wrote to Vates support as we have a XOA support contract with them. I can highly recommend this – they have great response times and offer good solutions.

The response was:

We're working on it but it won't make it to the 5.71 (May) release. It could be shipped with the 5.72 release scheduled for the end of June.

So I guess this will be resolved soon :)

[iuriss]

Has this bug been addresses?

[marcungeschikts]

Has this bug been addresses?

It is in progress...probably by the end of the month(June 2023) 🤞🏻