Registering system to Red Hat Satellite 6 returns "No such environment" error.

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

• System registration to Red Hat Satellite 6 using subscription-manager fails with error No such environment as shown below:

  # subscription-manager register --org myEnvExample
  Username: admin
  Password: 
  Environment: myEnvExample
  No such environment: myEnvExample

Resolution

• Below command will list the available environments:

   # subscription-manager environments
   Username:  admin
   Password: 
   Organization: myOrgExample
  +-------------------------------------------+
          Environments
  +-------------------------------------------+
   Name:        Production/myEnvExample
   Description: 

   Name:        Library/myEnvExample
   Description:

   Name:        Library
   Description: 

• Retry the registration using the values returned from the environments command:

# subscription-manager register --org myOrgExample
Username: admin
Password: 
Environment: Library
The system has been registered with ID: 9828e98c-62df-45dd-b990-300f24ebf037 

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Client Subscription Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Client Subscription Issues

Root Cause

• Wrong values may have supplied to subscription-manager for the environment variable.
• Value used may not be the full path value.
• Used Value could be from a puppet environment list not from the Life-Cycle Environment:

# hammer -u admin -p redhat environment list 
-

ID | NAME                                   
-|-
2  | KT_Default_Organization_Library_RHEL6_2
3  | KT_hive_Library_myEnvExample            
4  | KT_hive_Production_myEnvExample         

1  | production                             
-|-

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