[rhn-users] matching contracts to entitlements in RHN?

[Clifford Perry]

Greg Forte wrote:

> Is there any way to determine which system entitlement shown in the 
> entitlement view in RHN is linked to which contract in the contract 
> renewal screen outside of RHN?  

Currently no. If you wish to contact support to submit a customer 
feature request, then please do so.

All entitlements basically go into a big pool. When an entitlement 
expires, the pool total goes down by one. If you had say 6 AS 
entitlements, with only4 AS systems registered and then one AS 
entitlement expired, the pool total will go down to 5, with no affect on 
the 4 AS systems registered. If though you had 6 AS entitlements, with 6 
AS systems registered and one AS entitlements expired, then you want to 
know which system will lose its AS entitlements. This is in fact 
documented within rhe  RHN Reference guide as:

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn405/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S2-SM-SYSTEMS-ENTITLEMENTS

"When an entitlement expires, the last system entitled to the same 
service level (such as Management) will be unentitled. For instance, if 
you have 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS systems entitled to Management 
and either one of the RHN entitlements or one of the operating system 
subscriptions expire, the last system subscribed or entitled will have 
their subscription or entitlement removed."

It is a simple last in, first out algorithm.

Cliff.

> It'd be really helpful to be able to determine which _system_ is about 
> to lose its entitlement when it tells you a _contract_ is about to 
> expire.  Especially since it's not all that hard to get them 
> mismatched if you ever delete and re-register a system.  And of 
> course, comparing the base channel to the contract only helps if you 
> don't have more than one of each.  ;-)
>
> -g
>
> Greg Forte
> gforte at udel.edu
> IT - User Services
> University of Delaware
> 302-831-1982
> Newark, DE
>
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