[rhn-users] Preventing Duplicate Registrations in RHN

[Doerbeck, Christoph]

Is anyone still interested in a sample script.  I'd need to spend time to clean it up a bit before posting.  But it is a CLI tool for deleting hosts from the Sat Server (assuming proxy too) using the RHN API..

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Cornwell, Piers T [mailto:p.cornwell at imperial.ac.uk] 
	Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:17 AM
	To: Red Hat Network Users List
	Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Preventing Duplicate Registrations in RHN
	
	
	A sample script would be really useful. I'm using an RHN Proxy.
	 

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	From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Doerbeck, Christoph
	Sent: 17 October 2005 13:12
	To: Red Hat Network Users List
	Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Preventing Duplicate Registrations in RHN
	
	
	I wrote a script to use the RHN api and delete one (or many) hosts.  To automate it during a build, I'd recommend a web form (which calls the script) and that way you could query using wget during the %post from the build client.
	 
	I could post a sample of the script if necessary.
	 
	Are you using a RHN Satellite or Proxy?
	 
	- christoph
	 
	-----Original Message-----
	From: "Dr. Günter Schmidt" [mailto:guenter.schmidt at bruker.de] 
	Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 3:31 AM
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	Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Preventing Duplicate Registrations in RHN
	
	

		Cornwell, Piers T wrote: 

			During the %post install section of our install we run rhnreg_ks with the appropriate options to register the system with RHN however when systems are rebuilt, which happens quite often, a new registration gets created (with the same profile name - the machine's hostname - but a different ID). 
			 
			Since it's not practical for us to manually delete old profiles, is there any way to write a script to query RHN to see if a profile with this hostname already exists, and if so, to delete it before creating the new registration (or even to force it to use the old system ID)? 
			  

		The easiest way is to create a tar file of /etc/sysconfig/rhn and extraxt this file after your system is rebuild.
		
		
		
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