Yum transactions on Satellite clients are slowed down by entitlement related messages after enabling Simple Content Access on Red Hat Satellite.

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Subscription Management
  • Simple Content Access

Issue

  • Yum transactions on Red Hat Satellite client are slowed down by repeated instances of the following error after enabling Simple Content Access.

    This system is registered with an entitlement server, but is not receiving updates. You can use subscription-manager to assign subscriptions.

  • Repositories are still accessible even though the messages are reported.

Resolution

  • Update the subscription-manager package on the client to the latest available version, or any version of subscription-manager greater than 1.27.9-1

    # yum update subscription-manager

  • Make sure that the latest subscription-manager packages are exposed to the client if a minor release is set on it.

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

Root Cause

  • The client was running a version of subscription-manager which was not entirely compatible with Simple Content Access.
  • The subscription-manager CLI tool, in versions less than 1.27.9-1 will display spurious messages when SCA is enabled. When running yum commands, the user will receive output similar to This system is registered with an entitlement server, but is not receiving updates. You can use subscription-manager to assign subscriptions
    This message can be safely ignored in subscription-manager versions less than 1.27.9-1 when SCA is enabled, and will be properly suppressed in versions greater than 1.27.9-1
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