Bug 977338

Summary:	doc-feat-req-650-Document Virt-who must be run on a RHEL machine
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Laura Novich <lnovich>
Component:	doc-Virtualization_Administration_Guide	Assignee:	Laura Novich <lnovich>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.6	CC:	acarter, bkearney, jgalipea, jhradile, lnovich, mstead
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
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Clone Of:	963884	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-09-10 04:22:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	963884
Bug Blocks:	862910

Description Laura Novich 2013-06-24 10:40:43 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #963884 +++

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

--- Additional comment from Michael Stead on 2013-05-23 08:58:42 EDT ---

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 Laura Novich 2013-09-10 04:22:40 UTC

already documented in another guide