Granting the technical reality (rails is not running), it is surprising to me that "dedicated" database servers do not show up in the Cloudforms Configuration->settings, diagnostics list of appliances.

I'm specifically concerned that end users will forget to register the CFME database appliances to sat/rhn, since this isn't handled through CF. There are additional debugging, log collection, utilization that become visible if the DBs were appliances.

Suggest: That while "dedicated", the dedicated DB appliances do run evmserverd, though with only the very core/housekeeping roles.