How to configure virt-who for RHV-M to report to Satellite 6

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, RHV-H, RHV-M
Satellite 6.1, 6.2

Issue

• How do I configure virt-who for RHEV-M to report all RHEV hypervisors to Satellite 6 and perform guest/host mapping?

Resolution

1. Install virt-who from the satellite-tools repository [1]:

    # yum install virt-who
   

2. Verify if the version of virt-who is new or at least equal to version 0.14:

    # rpm -qa | grep virt-who
    virt-who-0.14-9.el7.noarch
   

3. Create a new configuration file:

    # vi /etc/virt-who.d/rhevm 
    [rhevm]
    type=rhevm
    server=https://rhevm.example.com:443
    username=rhevadmin@rhevm.example.com
    password=PasswordforRHEVM
    owner=OrganizationName
    env=Library
    hypervisor_id=hostname
   

4. Make the following modifications in /etc/sysconfig/virt-who and ensure no other lines exist:

    VIRTWHO_BACKGROUND=1
    VIRTWHO_DEBUG=0
    VIRTWHO_INTERVAL=3600
   

5. Restart the virt-who service:

    # `systemctl start virt-who` or `service virt-who restart`
   

[1] Per 6.2 documentation, install virt-who on each RHV-H and the RHV-M. Follow the link for how to configure virt-who on each RHV-H.

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

Diagnostic Steps

You can verify in /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log if there are any errors for the configuration of virt-who:

 {
            "guestId": "3b422a7e-2f36-4e44-889d-05ba804572f8", 
            "state": 1, 
            "attributes": {
                "active": 1, 
                "virtWhoType": "rhevm", 
                "hypervisorType": "qemu"
            }
        }, 
        {
            "guestId": "240ff50b-e54b-4fba-a75e-9d29ad2384ee", 
            "state": 1, 
            "attributes": {
                "active": 1, 
                "virtWhoType": "rhevm", 
                "hypervisorType": "qemu"
            }
        }, 
        {
            "guestId": "5d745358-710f-400a-98c5-d896fa8b134c", 
            "state": 1, 
            "attributes": {
                "active": 1, 
                "virtWhoType": "rhevm", 
                "hypervisorType": "qemu"
            }
        }, 
        {
            "guestId": "1bdcde39-fc57-47f1-aeb9-628c85e67883", 
            "state": 1, 
            "attributes": {
                "active": 1, 
                "virtWhoType": "rhevm", 
                "hypervisorType": "qemu"
            }
        }, 
        {
            "guestId": "41c2d0d5-a112-4665-a689-eb9d69828276", 
            "state": 1, 
            "attributes": {
                "active": 1, 
                "virtWhoType": "rhevm", 
                "hypervisorType": "qemu"
            }

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