[katello-devel] moving of systems between environments

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/14/2012 10:25 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?
>
>
It pulls every 4 hours or when you run yum the next time.

-- bk