[katello-devel] moving of systems between environments

[Mike McCune]

On 08/14/2012 07:25 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> the above functionality is in master as of yesterday.
>>
>> To move the system using web ui: on system detail screen, change the
>> environment name to the one you intend to move the system to. Once
>> completed, the system will reside in the new environment.
>> To move the system via cli: katello system update --org=Blah
>> --name=My_system --new_environment=<environment name goes here>
>>
>> To verify that the system has been moved successfully: pull
>> entitlement certificate and verify that the content urls have been
>> updated to use the new environment. Please note that if the content
>> that the system has been subscribed to is not available in the new
>> environment, the entitlement certificate is not going to have it
>> either.
>>
>
> Great. And how does a real-world scenario look like? I mean, does rhsm
> automatically pull entitlement certs every X hours? Or do I need to take
> some explicit action on the client?
>
>

I would imagine a 'subscription-manager refresh' would do it... that 
said, I tried out the above with an install of the latest from git. 
Some notes:

* The webUI worked fine, the system shows up in the next environment I 
moved it to

* Tried a 'subscription-manager refresh' and took a look at the 
redhat.repos file and it still pointed at /dev/ but I had moved the 
system to test

* tried 'yum repolist', same thing

did I miss something?

Mike
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