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Bug 1890421

Summary:	Display additional information on deprecation of /etc/sysconfig/virt-who and the ability to use the new general configuration section
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Rehana <redakkan>
Component:	virt-who	Assignee:	William Poteat <wpoteat>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Eko <hsun>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	8.4	CC:	anbond, wpoteat
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.4	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	An additional section has been added to the general configuration file [which lands by default at /etc/virt-who.conf]. This section [system_environment] will contain name/values that will be written to the system environment and will be in place for the duration of the process. It will be used whether virt-who was started as a service or from the command line.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2021-05-18 15:18:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Rehana 2020-10-22 07:00:10 UTC

Description of problem:
In addition to deprecation details virt-who has provided in this bug 1878136 , we would like virt-who provide additional information to user who can use the existing general configuration section in /etc/virt-who.conf to set any Environmental variables for virt-who service

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Expected results:
Provide additional details on how users can move their existing to env variable configuration to the general config file. 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rehana 2020-10-22 14:20:03 UTC

***Correction in Description of the problem **

Description of problem:
In addition to deprecation details virt-who has provided in this bug 1878136 , we would like virt-who to provide additional information to user who can use the new “system_environment" section in the general configuration file /etc/virt-who.conf to set environmental variables ( can be used both via service and CLI )

Comment 10 Anni Bond 2020-11-30 18:50:54 UTC

Doc text has been added to section 1.3: /etc/sysconfig/virt-who will not be supported from RHEL-9.0, the global configuration file will be replaced by /etc/virt-who.conf. (i.e. VIRTWHO_DEBUG, VIRTWHO_ONE_SHOT, VIRTWHO_INTERVAL, HTTPS_PROXY, NO_PROXY).

location: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_subscription_management/1/html-single/configuring_virtual_machine_subscriptions_in_red_hat_subscription_management/index#virt-who-configuration-for-each-virtualization-platform_vm-subs-rhsm

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:18:47 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (virt-who bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1749