Migration

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:46:53PM -0700, Michael Scully wrote:
> 	Does anyone know how the licensing model works?  Will the new box
> look like a second machine on the RH network and balk at me moving the
> entitlement over?  What happens now if you do a clean-from-scratch
> installation on the same hardware - does that look like a different server
> for entitlements?  I'm not sure what mechanism RH uses to identify machines.

I usually copy over /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid.  Just copy the file
over and then do an up2date --hardware to update RHN with your new host
info. 

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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