From a6a14d3bfedd81adcae6e4842ea71f1cbf8faf42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuan Bai <bybai@cn.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:13:13 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] group validation (#4945)

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm
index abc9174d0..f51543a5f 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm
@@ -4721,12 +4721,20 @@ sub initialize_variables
 sub isobjnamevalid{
     my $objname=shift;
     my $objtype=shift;
+    my %options;
+    $options{keepmissing}=1;
+    $options{genericrange}=1;
     $objtype="node" unless(defined $objtype and ($objtype ne ""));
     if($objtype eq "node"){
         #the ip address as a valid node object name is a hack for p7IH support   
         if(($objname !~ /^[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+$/) and !xCAT::NetworkUtils->isIpaddr($objname)){
             return 0;
         }
+    } elsif ($objtype eq "group"){
+        my @tmpnodes=xCAT::NodeRange::noderange($objname,0,0,%options);
+        if(scalar(@tmpnodes)>1 || $tmpnodes[0] ne $objname ){
+           return 0;
+        }    
     }
     return 1;
 }