[katello-devel] moving of systems between environments

[Dmitri Dolguikh]

On 16/08/12 01:50 PM, Sachin Ghai wrote:
>
>
> On 08/16/2012 02:06 PM, Sachin Ghai wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08/15/2012 06:05 AM, Mike McCune wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I observed same behaviour. Since I moved the system from 'test' to 'dev'
>> env, the redhat.repo was still showing the 'test' in URL.
>>
>> Content URLs in entitlement cert also points to 'test' env instead of
>> dev. Logs are here:
>> http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/102204
>>
>
> The candlepin version installed on katello server is:
>
> candlepin-0.5.32-1.el6.noarch
0.5.32-1 was tagged on May 3rd - candlepin changes required to support 
moving of systems were in master on June 6th. Not sure what you can do 
about this short of installing later candlepin release by hand...

-d
>
> Regards.
> -Sachin
>
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