From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: During a Satellite evaluation, one of our customers received a new Satellite certificate with an increased number of channel entitlements. Following the documentation in section 5.3 of "RHN Satellite Server 4.0: Installation Guide", I used rhn-satellite-activate to activate the Satellite. rhn-satellite-activate did not report any errors, but the entitlement counts on /network/software/channels/entitlements.pxt did not change. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhns-satellite-tools-4.0.3-3.rhel4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a connected Satellite with a valid certificate. 2. rhn-satellite-activate --sanity-only --rhn-cert=foo-4.cert 3. rhn-satellite-activate --rhn-cert=foo-4.cert Actual Results: The entitlement counts on /network/software/channels/entitlements.pxt do not change. Restarting the Satellite Server doesn't help. Only uploading the new certificate to rhn.redhat.com and running satellite-sync on the Satellite updates the entitlement counts. Expected Results: rhn-satellite-activate should update the entitlement counts. Additional info: If this also happens on a disconnected Satellite, it would be a more serious bug, as there you would not be able to update the certificate with satellite-sync.
This has been resolved with the RHN 410 Satellite release. This is a duplicate of bug 171160 â rhn-satellite-activate does not update channel entitlements. For disconnected Satellite, the solution would be to establish some type of channel dump ISO directory/mount point to point Satellite sync to and then use command syntax: satellite-sync --mount-point=./path/to/mount --rhn-cert=/path/to/cert Cliff. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171160 ***