RHEL vmware systems consuming physical entitlements for base & child channel while registering to RHN Satellite 5.4

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 or above , 6
  • Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.4
  • Vmware

Issue

  • RHEL vmware systems consuming physical entitlements for base & child channel while registering to RHN Satellite 5.4
  • While registering Vmware guest it consume flex entitlement for base channel but for child channels it consume regular entitlement.

Resolution

  • Fix for the bugzilla has been released as a errata RHBA-2011:0155 , to apply the fix refer following steps

1. Update satellite server

 # yum update

2. Take backup of satellite database. Refer : https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11071

3. a.) Upgrade the satellite schema using

 # spacewalk-schema-upgrade

   b.) If the schema is is already at the latest recommended update,"spacewalk-schema-upgrade" would give a message "Your database schema already matches

        the schema package version [satellite-schema-5.4.x.xx-x]".  In that case, run the following query to manually update the schema after installing the errata.

# su - oracle
$ sqlplus rhnsat/rhnsat@rhnsat @/etc/sysconfig/rhn/schema-upgrade/satellite-schema-5.3-to-satellite-schema-5.4/6002-rhn_channel.pkb.sql

4. Restart the rhn-satellite service

 # rhn-satellite restart

Root Cause

  • It seems that customer is hitting bug BZ#661109. Due to the nature of  the fix, which requires changes to the database schema.
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