Description of problem: In the newest release of documentation for SAM 1.3, the documentation is tremendously unclear about the usage of virt-who on RHEL based hypervisors Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3 Problematic Section: 7.1 Text in question: "The hypervisor is registered first with Subscription Asset Manager, and then a related process on the system scans for any guests and submits the discovered UUIDs to the subscription service. For VMWare ESX hypervisors, this process is virt-who. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux hypervisors such as Xen and KVM, this is done through the libvirt process when the rhn-virtualization-host command is run." https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html-single/Using_Subscription_Asset_Manager/index.html#sam-host-guest-map Suggestion for improvement: In the previous docs for 1.2, the following section goes into greater detail about using SAM in a virtualized environment and the role of virt-who on RHEL based Hypervisors: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Asset_Manager/1.2/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#chap-Installation_Guide-Virtual_Environments The current docs should reflect this importance as well. Additional info:
Could I get some clarification on why this was closed? The 'rhn-virtualization-host' package is only available for clients that subscribe to the RHN Tools channel. Which isn't an available repository when subscribed via RHSM. https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=602065 [root@sat-montana ~]# yum repolist all | grep -i tool This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management. This system is not registered with RHN Classic or RHN Satellite. You can use rhn_register to register. RHN Satellite or RHN Classic support will be disabled. rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-beta-debug-rpms Red Hat CloudForms disabled rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-beta-rpms Red Hat CloudForms disabled rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-beta-source-rpms Red Hat CloudForms disabled rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-debug-rpms Red Hat CloudForms disabled rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-rpms Red Hat CloudForms enabled: 31 rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-source-rpms Red Hat CloudForms disabled So RHSM, and SAM guests, could not use that package.