[RFE] Customer Portal Satellite Cert / Manifest tool: Extend an existing subscription assignment and/or change quantifies for subscription pools within a Manifest/Certs or between Manifests/Certs
Portion of original private description:
tl;dr allow subscription quantities to be adjusted in a subscription manager application (manifest), eg. changing an attached sub from quantity 2 to quantity 4 in-place
The requirement is to grow an existing subscription assignment in the subscription management tool. With multiple satellites, it can be difficult to juggle subscriptions without removing a block and forcing clients to re-attach.
i.e
Consider we have the following subscriptions added to the manifest (applicable to both SAM & Satellite6)
Red Hat Satellite 6 (For Transition Only) 10533615 1 09/12/2015
Employee SKU 10169621 50 01/01/2022
Now suppose we want to increase quantity by 5 for "Employee SKU", in this case we can not update total subscription but we can add.
Employee SKU 10169621 5 01/01/2022
Though for removal we need to remove total pool and then add again with required quantity.
We have a use case where we are migration systems from SatA to SatB in a process of Dev, QA, Prod. We must make sure that the not migrated systems connected to SatA are not touched. That means also for the subscriptions we have to migrate them in small portions.
That we will migrate 20 out of a pool of 100 subscriptions each time. That means we need 5 times to move subsscription on the RedHat Portal.
In SatA all subscriptions were in 1 big pool. But now on SatB the subscription will have 5 smaller pools.
This makes it for me as end user not easy identifiable how many subscriptions are now really used or free.
Thank you for opening this feature request . We have evaluated this request,
and while we recognise that it is a valid request, we do not expect this to be
implemented in the product in the foreseeable future. This is due to other
priorities for the product, and not a reflection on the request itself. We are
therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this,
Please reach out to us.
Portion of original private description: tl;dr allow subscription quantities to be adjusted in a subscription manager application (manifest), eg. changing an attached sub from quantity 2 to quantity 4 in-place The requirement is to grow an existing subscription assignment in the subscription management tool. With multiple satellites, it can be difficult to juggle subscriptions without removing a block and forcing clients to re-attach. i.e Consider we have the following subscriptions added to the manifest (applicable to both SAM & Satellite6) Red Hat Satellite 6 (For Transition Only) 10533615 1 09/12/2015 Employee SKU 10169621 50 01/01/2022 Now suppose we want to increase quantity by 5 for "Employee SKU", in this case we can not update total subscription but we can add. Employee SKU 10169621 5 01/01/2022 Though for removal we need to remove total pool and then add again with required quantity.