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Proposes ADR-061 for #1955: an opt-in, cloud-independent host-diagnostics step in log-collector. Following AGENTS.md, this PR adds the decision record only. Implementation waits for maintainer acceptance.

  • Host diagnostics: auto-detect supportconfig or sos, and run outside the GCP/AWS branches, whose behaviour is unchanged. The default minimal profile fits the existing 10-minute Job timeout; full is opt-in. Measured on an idle SLES 16 node:

    supportconfig run Time
    -m -k -c -q (minimal) 17 s
    default 598 s
    -k -c, traced 687 s
  • Rancher support bundle: optional and rate-limited, modelled on GPU Operator must-gather, for the Kubernetes objects and logs host reports don't include.

  • Open question for maintainers: auto-raise logCollector.timeout for profile: full, or document it?

ADR-059 and ADR-060 appear in open PRs (#1706, #1952), so this takes 061. Happy to renumber.

Type of Change

  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • 💥 Breaking change
  • 📚 Documentation
  • 🔧 Refactoring
  • 🔨 Build/CI

Component(s) Affected

  • Health Monitor
  • Core Service
  • Fault Management
  • Janitor
  • Deployment/Config
  • API/Interface
  • Preflight
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  • Documentation/CI
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  • Multiple Components
  • Other

Testing

  • Tests pass locally
  • Manual testing completed
  • No breaking changes (or documented)

Documentation only. The runtimes come from real runs of supportutils 3.2.14 on SLES 16 (arm64, 80 cores, btrfs root).

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  • Self-review completed
  • Documentation updated (if needed)
  • Ready for review

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  • Documentation
    • Added a proposed design for optional, cloud-independent host diagnostics collection, including minimal and full profiles, safeguards, timeouts, and artifact handling.
    • Documented behavior when diagnostic tools or scrubbing capabilities are unavailable.
    • Added the proposal to the design documentation index.
    • The proposal is pending maintainer acceptance; no user-facing functionality is included in this change.

Propose an opt-in host-diagnostics step for log-collector that runs on any
cluster, not only GCP and AWS: auto-detect supportconfig or sos, default to
a minimal profile that fits the existing 10-minute Job timeout (17 s
measured, against 598 s for a default supportconfig run), and optionally
collect a rate-limited Rancher support bundle for the Kubernetes side.

Refs NVIDIA#1955

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@suse.com>
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The pull request adds ADR-061 for opt-in, cloud-independent host diagnostics in log-collector Jobs. It documents collection behavior, safeguards, configuration, and testing. The ADR index links to the new proposal. No implementation is included.

Changes: Host diagnostics proposal

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Host diagnostics design and ADR index
docs/designs/061-host-diagnostics-collection.md, docs/designs/README.md
The ADR documents defaults-off host diagnostics, tool detection, report profiles, artifact handling, scrubbing safeguards, duplicate prevention, timeout guidance, and testing scope. The index links to ADR-061.

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The proposal is ready to merge as a design record. Its host-diagnostics scope is clear, and it documents the timeout needed for the opt-in full profile.

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51-51: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Define the host-diagnostics order relative to the cloud collectors.

Line 51 places the step after nvidia-bug-report but does not place it relative to the GCP and AWS branches. Line 59 requires skipping host diagnostics when either branch produced a report, but does not define the ordering or the state used for that check. State that the cloud collectors run first, or define an explicit guard that prevents duplicate reports.

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Review comment at @docs/designs/061-host-diagnostics-collection.md at line 51:
Clarify the host-diagnostics ordering in the design around the
`nvidia-bug-report` step: specify that the GCP and AWS collectors run first and
host diagnostics run only if neither produced a report, or define an explicit
guard that enforces this behavior.

60-60: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Define Secret handling for the Rancher support bundle.

The proposal grants the dedicated ServiceAccount “read-only cluster access,” collects Kubernetes objects, and uploads the archive. Read-only access can still include get, list, or watch on Secrets, which exposes Secret data. Define least-privilege RBAC that denies Secret access, and configure or document support-bundle-kit filters that exclude or redact Secret data before upload.

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Review comment at @docs/designs/061-host-diagnostics-collection.md at line 60:
Update the Rancher support bundle design description to specify least-privilege
RBAC that excludes Secret access and support-bundle-kit filters that exclude or
redact Secret data before upload; locate the description by its “Rancher support
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Review comments at @docs/designs/061-host-diagnostics-collection.md:
- Line 60: Update the Rancher support bundle design around minInterval to
specify a cluster-scoped coordinator, such as a lease or lock, that atomically
grants one log-collector Job ownership to create a bundle and enforce the rate
limit across nodes.
- Line 84: Update the host diagnostics design around `supportconfig -j` and
`extraArgs` to specify the `supportutils-scrub` 1.2-or-later prerequisite and
define the missing-package behavior; ensure a requested scrub is neither
reported as successful nor uploaded as scrubbed when that prerequisite is
unavailable.
- Line 34: Split the combined decision in the host-diagnostics ADR into two
separate ADRs: one for opt-in host diagnostics in log-collector and one for
opt-in, rate-limited Rancher support-bundle collection. Update the ADR records
and their index entries in docs/designs/README.md so each record states only one
decision, preserving the stated defaults and existing GCP/AWS SOS behavior.

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Review comments at @docs/designs/061-host-diagnostics-collection.md:
- Line 51: Clarify the host-diagnostics ordering in the design around the
`nvidia-bug-report` step: specify that the GCP and AWS collectors run first and
host diagnostics run only if neither produced a report, or define an explicit
guard that enforces this behavior.
- Line 60: Update the Rancher support bundle design description to specify
least-privilege RBAC that excludes Secret access and support-bundle-kit filters
that exclude or redact Secret data before upload; locate the description by its
“Rancher support bundle” text.

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tool: auto # auto | supportconfig | sos
profile: minimal # minimal | full
extraArgs: []
rancherSupportBundle:

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since this has a container image would this be a side car container or would this be more of running the image on the host itself?

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Neither, for the host report. The step runs the host's own supportconfig/sos binaries through log-collector's existing chroot /host. Those tools ship with the distribution (SLES 16 installs both), so NVSentinel needs no image or sidecar, and the step is skipped if neither tool is installed. 98c9ce3 states this explicitly.

The image on this line was for the Rancher support bundle. To keep this ADR to one decision, I moved that to future work. Noted there for a future ADR: it would be its own short-lived pod that collects through the Kubernetes API, not a sidecar and not on the host.

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@abonillabeeche this PR now has merge conflicts with main. Please rebase to resolve them.

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# Conflicts:
#	docs/designs/README.md
Address review feedback: keep one decision per record by moving Rancher
support bundle collection to future work, state that the step runs the host's
own diagnostic tool through chroot with no image or sidecar, and add a scrub
setting that fails closed when supportutils-scrub is unavailable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@suse.com>
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@lalitadithya Thanks for the question. Answered inline: the host report runs the host's own tools via chroot /host, with no image or sidecar. I've merged main, which resolves the conflict, and kept the 061 number, since main has 062/063 and 061 is still free. 98c9ce3 addresses the review:

  • The ADR now covers host diagnostics only. The Rancher support bundle moved to future work, which also removes the image and rate-limit questions from this ADR.
  • New scrub setting that fails closed when supportutils-scrub is missing.

The one open question is unchanged: for profile: full, should the chart raise logCollector.timeout automatically, or only document and warn?

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