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Bug 1919566

Summary:	Global Registration: should not allow to generate command if 'Activation Key' has been kept blank.
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Jayant Bhatia <jbhatia>
Component:	Registration	Assignee:	Leos Stejskal <lstejska>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Stephen Wadeley <swadeley>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.9.0	CC:	ahumbe, lstejska, pcreech
Target Milestone:	6.9.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged, UserExperience
Target Release:	Unused
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	tfm-rubygem-katello-3.18.1.12-1	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Feature: Reason: Result: "Activation Key" field is mandatory	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2021-04-21 13:25:38 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 Jayant Bhatia 2021-01-23 17:41:40 UTC

Description of problem:

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Navigate to Satellite WebUI -> Hosts -> All Hosts -> Register Host. Keep 'Token lifetime' as '4' and all other fields empty. Click on 'Generate Command'. Copy the Generated Command on RHEL client machine and run it on client machine.

Actual results:

The client registration fails with below error:

~~~~~
Installed:
  katello-ca-consumer-dhcp130-237.gsslab.pnq2.redhat.com.noarch 0:1.0-1                                                                           

Complete!
Error: Must specify an activation key
~~~~~

Expected results: If 'Activation Key' field has been kept empty, the Satellite WebUI should not generate the registration command and should throw an error or warning to fill in the 'Activation Key' because 'Activation Key' has been mentioned as one of the mandatory fields to be entered.


Additional info: We could have multiple customers who will keep the Activation Key option blank and will generate the command and will attempt to run it leading to the mentioned error. Then going back, filing up the 'Activation Key' option, generating the command again and running it again on client machines.

Comment 1 Ashish Humbe 2021-01-25 11:23:31 UTC

*** Bug 1919883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Marek Hulan 2021-01-29 14:05:54 UTC

Have you also tried setting the AK through host group? I think it's valid to use host group association and keep the field blank, but you're right that currently we need AK to be set somehow. This may change in next version though.

Comment 3 Marek Hulan 2021-01-29 14:08:54 UTC

In 6.9 time frame we may be able only to print such error as the first thing the scripts does, before any command is performed.

Comment 4 Jayant Bhatia 2021-02-02 02:57:02 UTC

Hello,

Thing works fine while using host group and AK mentioned in host group. The mentioned issue is for the scenario when host group is not used and AK is also left blank.

Comment 5 Leos Stejskal 2021-02-05 13:13:10 UTC

Hi,
the problem is that activation key is required only for RHEL & CentOS systems.
Other OSs (like Ubuntu & Fedora) don't need activation keys for registration.
I know that they are not supported, however they are not forbidden, so customers can register them.

Comment 6 Jayant Bhatia 2021-02-06 04:43:39 UTC

Hello,

Thanks.

In this scenario, a disclaimer or Info message will also help near "Activation Keys" option within "Satellite WebUI -> Hosts -> All Hosts -> Register Host". The Info message should state something like that Activation Key value is mandatory while Generating command for RHEL machines registration.

Comment 7 Stephen Wadeley 2021-02-11 08:21:53 UTC

Hello

Can we say this is an RFE then?

Thank you

Comment 8 Marek Hulan 2021-02-15 15:42:51 UTC

Makes sense, adding a keyword

Comment 9 Marek Hulan 2021-02-17 16:53:51 UTC

Realigning to 6.9, the AK in this version is required. In 6.10 we'll also allow inheriting this from HG and this becomes optional again. However the UI will better represent that.

Comment 10 Leos Stejskal 2021-02-23 08:51:37 UTC

Redmine: https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/31918
Upstream PR: https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/9177

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2021-04-21 13:25:38 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 (Moderate: Satellite 6.9 Release), 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/RHSA-2021:1313