[rhelv6-list] Subscription Manager functionality

[Ben]

So, according to RHSA-2014:1070-01 we have to migrate to Red Hat 
Subscription Manager by July 31, 2017.  All systems using Red Hat Network 
Classic Hosted directly, or indirectly with Red Hat Proxy must be moved.

Thus far I've held off, other than for three RHEL7 workstations.

Can someone, anyone, tell me when Subscription Manager (which I'm assuming 
is under https://access.redhat.com/management/) is going to gain any of the 
useful functionality of Red Hat network Classic (Hosted), when used with 
Smart Management entitlements/subscriptions?  That is to say:

- Software channel entitlements listing
- Listing systems by out of date/virtual/unentitled/inactive/recently 
registered
- System Set Manager
- Groups of any kind, and showing ungrouped systems
- Scheduling
- Profiles
- Even just being able to see how many Errata and Packages a system is 
behind on and to drill down to look at each of the above

At present I don't see any kind of Smart Management functionality in 
Subscription Manager.  Does that mean I should start thinking about 
downgrading my subscriptions/entitlements to lose Smart Management?  That 
would be disappointing as being able to group systems was very helpful. 
Especially when I could then assign an Activation Key for joining that 
group, which would subscribe a joining system to certain child channels I'd 
specified within the key 
(https://rhn.redhat.com/network/account/activation_keys/list.pxt).  There 
are Activation Keys in Subscription Manager, but I don't see any of that 
functionality within it 
(https://access.redhat.com/management/activation_keys), unless I'm missing 
something.  It seems Subscription Manager Activation Keys can ensure your 
system gets the right subscription (and service level), but there's no way 
to specify child channels.  I won't even start on Provisioning as I don't 
actually use that.  But I'm sure others do.  I don't see any of that 
functionality represented at all.

It's more than likely that all of this functionality is already available. 
But Subscription Manager seems to be relatively opaque in a way that RHN 
Classic isn't, so I'm not seeing it.

Does anyone have some useful pointers on where I need to go to discover the 
undoubtably rich functionality that I'm currently unable to unlock, please? 
Because at present it seems like I'm losing a lot of useful stuff just so 
that Red Hat can police their customers better.

With grateful thanks,

Ben
-- 
Unix Support, UIS, University of Cambridge, England