[katello-devel] moving of systems between environments

[Sachin Ghai]

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

Regards.
-Sachin