management NIC and host NIC can be the same for sidebanded systems

[j0hnL]

Describe the bug TASK [control_plane_common : Verify different nics] fails when management NIC and host NIC are the same.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: ansible control_plane.yml

Expected behavior This should not fail and allow mngmnt_network_nic == host_network_nic

Screenshots

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "assertion": "mngmnt_network_nic != host_network_nic",
    "changed": false,
    "evaluated_to": false,
    "msg": "Failed. Incorrect nic information. public nic, management network nic and host network nic should not be the same"
}

[sujit-jadhav]

@j0hnL, in case of LOM both management and host network can be same, however we need to differentiate this scenario from iDRAC Settings - Network set to Dedicated and user giving same NIC for both management and host network, this is defective scenario. May be we should introduce one more variable iDRAC-network=LOM or iDRAC-Network=dedicated. We should allow management NIC and host NIC same when iDRAC-network=LOM I feel we should do this change in devel branch not in release-1.1. This needs some more testing. @Shubhangi-dell , let's make the changes for this in devel

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[j0hnL]

@sujit-jadhav @Shubhangi-dell did this already get resolved?

[sujit-jadhav]

@j0hnL This is not yet resolved. We will target it for 1.2

[j0hnL]

@sujit-jadhav is this still on target for 1.2?

[sujit-jadhav]

@j0hnL yes John we are targeting it for 1.2

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