[katello-devel] registering consumer from katello end

[Bryan Kearney]

Tring to move things to the users guide... I updated the page to be:

https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/GuideSystemRegistrationClient

-- bk

On 11/17/2011 08:06 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 11/17/2011 06:44 AM, Kedar Bidarkar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Registering a node from the subscription-manager from client end
>> worked for me earlier and I could consume the repos.
>>
>> Today, I have registered and provided subscriptions to a machine from
>> katello end(server end).
>> http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/68288
>> I would like to know what actions need to be performed on the client
>> machine, so that it can fetch and consume the repos.
>>
>> Please let me know,
>
> Do you have subscription-manager on the client machine? If you have that
> installed you can use the GUI or hte command line to pull it down.
>
>>
>> How the consumer certs are pulled or created here on the client and
>> how will the repos get created.
>>> From the link https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/SystemRegistration
>> I no longer find pulp-client, has the process changed a bit.
>>
>> I found that pulp-consumer is the replacement for pulp-client and used
>> it.
>
> I look at the page, and it is out of date. i will updtae it now. The
> summary is that the katello cli tool should be used to manage the
> server, and subscription-manager is used to manage the current machine
> you are on.
>
> Think of it this way:
>
> katello-cli roughly equals pulp-admin
> subscription-manageer roughly equals pulp-client
>
>>
>> I face the below issue, but this node is already registered.
>>
>> [root at dhcp201-219 yum.repos.d]# pulp-consumer --username admin
>> --password admin consumer create --id
>> b6db228b-3737-4538-890a-5fe1cb513d49
>> warning: this client is not known to the pulp server; run
>> 'pulp-consumer consumer register' to register it
>> Usage: pulp-consumer<options> consumer<action> <options>
>> Supported Actions:
>> register register the consumer
>> unregister unregister the consumer
>> bind bind the consumer to listed repos
>> unbind unbind the consumer from repos
>> history view the consumer history
>> update update consumer profile
>>
>> pulp-consumer: error: invalid action: please see --help
>>
>> Please correct me if required.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Kedar Bidarkar
>>
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