Bug 963884

Summary:	Virt-who must be run on a RHEL machine
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Amanda Carter <acarter>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Deon Ballard <dlackey>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Version:	7.0	CC:	bkearney, lnovich, mstead
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
Target Release:	7.0
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Last Closed:	2014-01-06 17:56:50 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	977338, 1014343

Description Amanda Carter 2013-05-16 17:42:32 UTC

Description of problem:

The subscription management 1.0 guide states that virt-who should be installed on VCenter for VMWare users, but I'm pretty sure that's incorrect as I understand that it must be run on a RHEL machine.

See 5.3.6.2. Installing virt-who for VMWare

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1.0/html/Subscription_Management_Guide/registering-machine-ui.html

Comment 1 Michael Stead 2013-05-23 12:58:42 UTC

Correct. virt-who must run on a machine that is capable of registering to candlepin, as it requires a valid identity cert to communicate with candlepin. Therefore, it must be able to run subscription-manager to do so.

virt-who must then be configured to talk to VCenter in order to fetch its host/guest mappings to send to candlepin.

Comment 2 Deon Ballard 2014-01-06 17:56:50 UTC

This is made clear(er) in the SAM docs:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/Using_Subscription_Asset_Manager/sam-virt-vmware.html

And the RHSM docs:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/RHSM/register-virtual.html

And the workflow doc:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/Subscription_Concepts_and_Workflows/ents-virtual.html

At least, it should be understood that virt-who is installed on the RHEL system. vCenter isn't really mentioned.