How to filter which hosts are sent by virt-who on Satellite 6.x?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.X
• Red hat Enterprise Linux
• virt-who-0.14-9.el7

Issue

• How to filter on which host to sent by virt-who?
• How to make sure that only the required hosts/hypervisors to report on satellite 6 using virt-who?
• How to exclude some host's from geting reported to Satellite 6 when using virt-who?

Resolution

• Make sure that the following errata applied on the satellite client where virt-who will be configured : RHBA-2015-2370

• Edit the virt-who configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who and enable the following parameters.

   VIRTWHO_BACKGROUND=1
   VIRTWHO_DEBUG=1
   VIRTWHO_SATELLITE6=1
  

• For example, for VMware virtualization backend, create a new configuration file for virt-who inside /etc/virt-who.d/.

   [root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/virt-who.d/config.conf
   [config]
   type=<hypervisor_type>
   server=<vcenter/esx host>
   username=<vcenter/esx_username>
   password=<password>
   owner=<owner>
   env=Library
   rhsm_hostname=<satellite hostname>
   rhsm_username=admin
   rhsm_encrypted_password=<encypted-password>
   rhsm_prefix=/rhsm
   hypervisor_id=hostname
   filter_hosts=host1.example.com,host2.example.com OR
   exclude_hosts=host1.example.com,host2.example.com
  

  NOTE: The owner column in the /etc/virt-who.d/ configuration file is provided by executing the below
  command on the Satellite

   [root@localhost ~]# hammer organization list
   owner = org label
  

  NOTE: Use anyone from filter_host_uuids or exclude_host_uuids filter_host_uuids - If provided, only
  hosts with uuid in this list will be reported, exclude_host_uuids - If provided, do not report hosts with uuid
  in this list.
  host_uuids are the uuid's of the physical host (can be found in VMware systeminfo or rhev host info).
  See KBase 1381903 for more info.

  Hypervisor Type:

  • The hypervisor type can be libvirt, vdsm, esx, rhevm and hyperv.

  Restart virt-who Service:

  • Restart the virt-who service after the configuration change.

   [root@localhost ~]# service virt-who restart
  

  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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