Command to remove a receptor node

[thenets]

For some use cases make sense to remove an older receptor node without the need to delete everything and restart the mesh state.

Motivation

During my test cases for execution_nodes with the receptor, I'm facing some challenges trying to add and remove nodes to check the AWX auto-discovery behavior.

I always need to destroy all the mesh and start again. Would be great if I could delete the nodes without the need to destroy everything.

Suggestion

I think that would be nice to have different ways to remove a receptor node from the mesh. If this is not possible to add those additional options, no problem, I can handle it from the Python code.

Examples:

• Remove based on the name: receptorctl remove <name>
• Remove based on the prefix: receptorctl remove --prefix <prefix_name>
• Remove based on the age: receptorctl remove --older_than <age_in_seconds>
• Remove based on last seen: receptorctl remove --last_seen <seconds>

Time Sprint: 1 sprint

[chrismeyersfsu]

related to https://github.com/ansible/tower-packaging/issues/1429 If/when we add uninstalling a mesh node from the mesh in AWX.

[chrismeyersfsu]

@fosterseth does receptor have an notion of expiring a node from it's list of known node(s) ?