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Bug 1461003

Summary:	[RFE] Remove --type option from subscription-manager register
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Rich Jerrido <rjerrido>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	William Poteat <wpoteat>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	John Sefler <jsefler>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.4	CC:	jboutaud, khowell, pcreech, rbiba, redakkan, rjerrido, skallesh, wpoteat
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	subscription-manager-1.20.2-1	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-04-10 09:49:05 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Rich Jerrido 2017-06-13 10:42:34 UTC

Description of problem:


The --type option of the subscription-manager register command, which is used to control which consumer type is created when a user registers a system, should be removed as

- For an end user, there is no reason to use an option other than --type=system (which is the default) 
- Occasionally Satellite users will use the --type satellite option which causes issues if the consumer is ever deleted (as they've created a distributor which gets removed if they ever run subscription-manager unregister)

To remove confusion, and lower case volume, the --type command should be removed. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager-1.17.15-1

Comment 12 Rehana 2017-11-09 12:40:09 UTC

Demonstrating the presence of "--type"on RHEL74 machine 
======================================================

subscription-manager: 1.19.21-1.el7
python-rhsm: 1.19.9-1.el7

# subscription-manager register --
--activationkey  --autosubscribe  --consumerid     --force          --insecure       --noproxy        --password       --proxypassword  --release    --servicelevel   --username --auto-attach    --baseurl        --environment    --help           --name           --org            --proxy          --proxyuser      --serverurl      --type  

# subscription-manager register --h | grep type
  --type=UNITTYPE       the type of unit to register, defaults to system

# man subscription-manager | grep "CONSUMERTYPE" -A5
       --type=CONSUMERTYPE
              Sets  the  type  of unit to register. Most units in the inventory will use the default value of system.  For development or test units, this can be person , which indicates a personal (rather than organizational) unit. Another type of unit can be candlepin for a local content service or domain for an IP domain.


Demonstrating that the --type option is now removed from the following areas on RHEL75
===========================================================================
with following packages installed 

subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64
subscription-manager-gui-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64
subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64
subscription-manager-migration-data-2.0.37-1.el7.noarch
subscription-manager-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64
subscription-manager-rhsm-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64
subscription-manager-migration-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64

1) tab completion of options doesn't list --type any more 

# subscription-manager register --
--activationkey  --autosubscribe  --consumerid     --force          --insecure       --noproxy        --password       --proxypassword  --release     --servicelevel   
--auto-attach    --baseurl        --environment    --help           --name           --org            --proxy          --proxyuser      --serverurl      --username   

2) subscription-manager register -h no longer provides --type 

# subscription-manager register --h | grep type
# 

3) man subscription-manager --> no longer displays --type 

# man subscription-manager | grep "CONSUMERTYPE" -A5
[root@ibm-x3650m4-01-vm-09 ~]# 

Based on the above observations , marking the bug as "Verified"

Comment 13 Rehana 2017-11-09 12:49:06 UTC

Also when tried to use --type option for any other values except system and rhui appropriate error message is displayed 


# subscription-manager register --type=candlepin
Error: The --type option has been deprecated and may not be used.


# subscription-manager register --type=system --username=username --password=pwd
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.stage.redhat.com:443/subscription
The system has been registered with ID: fdf182e4-93e5-471a-a52c-2f35009675b2
The registered system name is: ibm-x3650m4-01-vm-09.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com


# subscription-manager register --type=rhui --username=username --password=pwd
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.stage.redhat.com:443/subscription
The system has been registered with ID: 067815ad-bd57-4a13-91b6-b4b220cf17a8
The registered system name is: ibm-x3650m4-01-vm-09.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com
#

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 09:49:05 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0681