Add a test about keeping management address type when disabling

Before it was forced to change into IPv4 and would break
IPv6 setups

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Reis <[email protected]>

Author: benjamreis

lib/host.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from packaging import version
 
 import lib.commands as commands
+import lib.pif as pif
 
 from lib.common import _param_add, _param_clear, _param_get, _param_remove, _param_set
 from lib.common import safe_split, strip_suffix, to_xapi_bool, wait_for, wait_for_not
@@ -420,6 +421,10 @@ def reboot(self, verify=False):
     def management_network(self):
         return self.xe('network-list', {'bridge': self.inventory['MANAGEMENT_INTERFACE']}, minimal=True)
 
+    def management_pif(self):
+        uuid = self.xe('pif-list', {'management': True, 'host-uuid': self.uuid}, minimal=True)
+        return pif.PIF(uuid, self)
+
     def disks(self):
         """ List of SCSI disks, e.g ['sda', 'sdb', 'nvme0n1']. """
         disks = self.ssh(['lsblk', '-nd', '-I', '8,259', '--output', 'NAME']).splitlines()

tests/network/test_management_disable_address_type.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Requirements:
+# - one XCP-ng host (--host) (>= 8.3 for IPv6 test)
+
+def test_management_disable_address_type(host):
+    management_pif = host.management_pif()
+    type = management_pif.param_get("primary-address-type").lower()
+
+    host.xe("host-management-disable")
+    assert management_pif.param_get("primary-address-type").lower() == type
+
+    host.xe("host-management-reconfigure", {"pif-uuid": management_pif.uuid})
+    assert management_pif.param_get("primary-address-type").lower() == type