When using the agent inspect interface, Ironic will run the hooks without the "ports" hook, so it won't manipulate ports

When using the redfish inspect interface, Redfish inspection creates ports directly through _create_ports() method called from inspect_hardware() method itself, not primarily through hooks.

Author: syedhaseebahmed

components/ironic/values.yaml

@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ conf:
       loader_file_paths: "snponly.efi:/usr/lib/ipxe/snponly.efi"
     inspector:
       extra_kernel_params: ipa-collect-lldp=1
+      # Agent inspection hooks - ports hook removed to prevent port manipulation during agent inspection
+      # Default hooks include: ramdisk-error,validate-interfaces,ports,architecture
+      # We override to exclude 'ports' from the default hooks
+      default_hooks: "ramdisk-error,validate-interfaces,architecture"
       hooks: "$default_hooks,pci-devices,parse-lldp,local-link-connection,resource-class"
     # enable sensors and metrics for redfish metrics - https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/drivers/redfish/metrics.html
     sensor_data: