Note: Observed in 17.1.x, and should be backported actively.

A customer issue was observed with a stretched control plane where the ironic-neutron-agent service was continuing to apparently run, but was no longer connected to services like database/message bus. In reality, I believe the service only operates with the message bus, but other services had been observed in similar state on the same host.

In any event, no logs had been recorded at any point recently, and the the service was not functioning, so we believe halted. This results in spine/leaf based deployments potentially failing due to missing spine/leaf provider network mapping data.

I've opened this upstream as launchpad bug ID 2084912.

Filed against the openstack-ironic component since it relates to the use, however the networking-baremetal package where this issue resides is lacking a specific component in jira.