Hammer fails with Association not found for location in Red Hat Satellite 6.

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x.
• Hammer.

Issue

• When trying to execute a Hammer command it fails with:

[root@satellite6 ~]# hammer virt-who-config deploy --id 1 --organization-id 1
Could not deploy the Virt Who configuration:
       Association not found for location

Resolution

• Verify if there are any defaults set for Hammer specifically relating to Organizations and Locations:

[root@satellite6 ~]# hammer defaults list
[root@satellite6 ~]# cat ~/.hammer/defaults.yml

• After making appropriate changes with regards to the default Organization/Location set in ~/.hammer/defaults.yml the Hammer utility works just fine.

• Red Hat Satellite 6.5 provides a --no-use-defaults switch to by-pass the default settings:

[root@satellite6.5 ~]# hammer --no-use-defaults virt-who-config deploy --id 1 --organization-id 1

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

Root Cause

• Hammer has a default Organization(depending on the situation) or Location set which it reads every time while executing a command.

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