Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1282617
[RFE] deprecate the "auto-attach" module in favor of "healing" to improve the customer's experience
Last modified: 2017-12-06 05:52:32 EST
Description of problem: Currently we are overloading the term "auto-attach" to imply two different things: 1. immediately attach any available subscription(s) so as to satisfy my system's status now; or 2. turn on/off a configuration setting that will instruct rhsmcertd to issue an instruction to attach any available subscription(s) so as to satisfy my system's status on a daily schedule. Unfortunately this is leading to a lot of customer confusion. See bug 1272148 as an example. Historically, case 1 came first and was dubbed "autosubscribe" but was later deprecated/aliased to "auto-attach". Case 2 came afterwards and was internally dubbed "healing". Let's use this new RFE bug to use the original terminology for case 2. Unfortunately there are a lot of places that will require updates to make this change. I will start listing them in the comments that follow. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@jsefler-7 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager subscription-manager-1.15.9-15.el7.x86_64
[root@jsefler-7 ~]# subscription-manager --help | grep -A30 "Other Modules:" Other Modules: auto-attach Set if subscriptions are attached on a schedule (default of daily) clean Remove all local system and subscription data without affecting the server config List, set, or remove the configuration parameters in use by this system environments Display the environments available for a user facts View or update the detected system information identity Display the identity certificate for this system or request a new one import Import certificates which were provided outside of the tool orgs Display the organizations against which a user can register a system plugins View and configure subscription-manager plugins redeem Attempt to redeem a subscription for a preconfigured system repo-override Manage custom content repository settings repos List the repositories which this system is entitled to use service-level Manage service levels for this system subscribe Deprecated, see attach unsubscribe Deprecated, see remove version Print version information Expected: auto-attach Deprecated, see healing healing Set if subscriptions are attached on a schedule (default of daily)
update the man page for subscription-manager including the section on deprecated commands
[root@jsefler-7 ~]# subscription-manager config | grep rhsmcertd -A10 [rhsmcertd] autoattachinterval = [1440] certcheckinterval = [240] [] - Default value in use Expected: autoattachinterval should be renamed to healinterval
[root@jsefler-7 ~]# rhsmcertd --help | grep "Application Options" -A20 Application Options: --cert-interval=MINUTES deprecated, see --cert-check-interval -c, --cert-check-interval=MINUTES interval to run cert check (in minutes) --heal-interval=MINUTES deprecated, see --auto-attach-interval -i, --auto-attach-interval=MINUTES interval to run auto-attach (in minutes) -n, --now run the initial checks immediately, with no delay -d, --debug show debug messages Expected: -i, --heal-interval=MINUTES interval to run auto-attach (in minutes) --auto-attach-interval=MINUTES deprecated, see --heal-interval
[root@jsefler-7 ~]# cat /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf | grep rhsmcertd -A20 [rhsmcertd] # Interval to run cert check (in minutes): certCheckInterval=240 # Interval to run auto-attach (in minutes): autoAttachInterval=1440 Expected: # Interval to run auto-attach (in minutes): healInterval=1440
[root@jsefler-7 ~]# subscription-manager auto-attach --help Usage: subscription-manager auto-attach [OPTIONS] Set if subscriptions are attached on a schedule (default of daily) <======= Expected: Deprecated, see healing Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --proxy=PROXY_URL proxy URL in the form of proxy_hostname:proxy_port --proxyuser=PROXY_USER user for HTTP proxy with basic authentication --proxypassword=PROXY_PASSWORD password for HTTP proxy with basic authentication --enable try to attach subscriptions for uncovered products each check-in --disable do not try to automatically attach subscriptions each check-in --show show the current auto-attach preference
Created attachment 1095127 [details] System Preferences Update the term "auto-attach" in the subscription-manager-gui preferences dialog to "healing"
[root@jsefler-7 ~]# subscription-manager auto-attach --show Auto-attach preference: enabled Expected: [root@jsefler-7 ~]# subscription-manager healing --show Healing preference: enabled
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