[Satellite6] How to configure single virt-who instance to support multiple organizations?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.1.x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6+ 7.x
• virt-who >= 0.14

Issue

• Can a single virt-who instance support Multiple Organizations in Satellite 6?
• Is there a way to have a single instance of the virt-who service selectively import data into multiple organizations?
• Is it possible to run single virt-who instance directly on the Satellite Server?

Resolution

• With the latest version of virt-who-0.14, it is possible to configure single instance of virt-who to support multiple organization.

Here is an example configuration to show how it will look like

# cat /etc/virt-who.d/config.conf
[test-esx]
type=esx
server=vmware.example.com
username=administrator@vSphere.local
password=******
owner=Default_Organization
env=Library
hypervisor_id=hostname
rhsm_hostname=satellite.example.com
rhsm_username=admin
rhsm_encrypted_password=*********
rhsm_prefix=/rhsm

[test-esx2]
type=esx
server=vmware1.example.com
username=administrator@vSphere.local
password=***********
owner=Other_Organization
env=Library
hypervisor_id=hostname
rhsm_hostname=satellite.example.com
rhsm_username=admin
rhsm_encrypted_password=************
rhsm_prefix=/rhsm

For more KB articles/solutions related to Virt-who and Virtual Datacenter (VDC) Subscriptions Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Virt-who and Virtual Datacenter (VDC) Subscriptions Issues

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