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Description of problem: Type=hypervisor missing from the man pages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): subscription-manager-1.15.9-15.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. man subscription-manager 2. 3. Actual results: --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. Expected results: --type should have a description for type=hypervisor Additional info: From section 3.9.2 from Satellite 6 install guide[1] "Register the system as hypervisor, using the --type=hypervisor option with the subscription-manager command." https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html-single/Subscription_Concepts_and_Workflows/index.html
There is a bit of confusion here , As a part of this bug 1461003 fix , we are no longer displaying "--type" option. Its been removed from both man pages and help. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461003#c12 packages used: subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64 subscription-manager-gui-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64 subscription-manager-rhsm-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64 subscription-manager-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64 subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64 subscription-manager-plugin-container-1.20.5-1.el7.x86_64 Kevin , Can you please help us with a way to verify this bug ? thanks, Rehana
We deprecated the option, thus closing WONTFIX, as mentioned in comment 3, we are deprecating the --type option, except in certain usages (type=hypervisor is *not* one of them).