Description of problem:

On a RDR setup, when the following cmd is run on the managed clusters after installing submariner using ODF-CLI, it doesn't give the required output, rather throws following error:

odf get dr-prereq amagrawa-4oct-c2
Error: Operator namespace 'openshift-storage' does not exist. namespaces "openshift-storage" not found

In my case, submariner was installed without globalnet, where clusters n/w config looks like this:

C1-

oc get networks.config.openshift.io cluster -o json | jq .spec
{
"clusterNetwork": [

{ "cidr": "10.132.0.0/14", "hostPrefix": 23 }

],
"externalIP": {
"policy": {}
},
"networkDiagnostics": {
"mode": "",
"sourcePlacement": {},
"targetPlacement": {}
},
"networkType": "OVNKubernetes",
"serviceNetwork": [
"172.31.0.0/16"
]
}

C2-

oc get networks.config.openshift.io cluster -o json | jq .spec
{
"clusterNetwork": [

{ "cidr": "10.128.0.0/14", "hostPrefix": 23 }

],
"externalIP": {
"policy": {}
},
"networkDiagnostics": {
"mode": "",
"sourcePlacement": {},
"targetPlacement": {}
},
"networkType": "OVNKubernetes",
"serviceNetwork": [
"172.30.0.0/16"
]
}

The error in unexpected because this cmd provides following info. which would be needed before installing ODF so as to know if multiClusterService is required on my setup or not.

Output-

Info: Submariner is installed.
Info: Globalnet is not required.
Info: Globalnet is not enabled."

The current implementation poses dependency on openshift-storage namespace which is created only after ODF operator installation which isn't the best practise IMO.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Submariner 0.19.0 downstream unreleased (image 806009)
OCP 4.17.0-0.nightly-2024-10-03-172957
ACM 2.12.0-DOWNSTREAM-2024-09-27-14-56-41 downstream unreleased

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On a RDR setup, install ACM and submariner and run odf-cli cmd as mentioned above before installing ODF operator on the managed clusters.
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Actual results: dr-prereq check poses dependency on openshift-storage namespace

Expected results: dr-prereq check should give desired output when submariner is installed on the managed clusters without posing a dependency on the openshift-storage namespace

Additional info: