Bug 1275370

Summary:	Issues with virt-who after upgrade
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Deon Ballard <dlackey>
Component:	Docs Upgrading and Updating Red Hat Satellite	Assignee:	Russell Dickenson <rdickens>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Melanie Corr <mcorr>
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Description Deon Ballard 2015-10-26 17:06:44 UTC

Document URL: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/6.1/html/Installation_Guide/chap-Red_Hat_Satellite-Installation_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Satellite_Server_and_Capsule_Server.html#sect-Red_Hat_Satellite-Installation_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Satellite_Server_and_Capsule_Server-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Satellite

A consultant encountered some issues when he was working with a customer to upgrade their environment from 6.0 to 6.1. For their virtual instances, they had some issues when upgrading virt-who:

* There is no virt-who upgrade information. 

* How does virt-who handle passwords with special characters during upgrade?

* If hypervisor UUIDs are converted to hostnames, Satellite treats them as new hypervisors and it requires that any subscriptions be reassigned and  old entries to be deleted manually.
    --> Is changing from a UUID to a hostname/FQDN as the identifier even supported?

Somewhat related bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1275365

Comment 2 Andrew Dahms 2017-11-21 00:08:11 UTC

Assigning to Russell for review.

Russell - the Virtual Instances Guide since gained a note about changing from UUID to host name, and as per our conversation on IRC, it looks like the main work now is to call out that virt-who is an RPM upgrade that doesn't really require any special steps in the Upgrade Guide.