Bug 2168207 - The 'Chapter 2. Creating an Activation Key for Virtual Machines' and 'Chapter 3. Attaching a Host-based Subscription to Hypervisors' within 'Configuring Virtual Machine Subscriptions in Red Hat Satellite' doc is no more valid as Satellite has SCA enabled
Summary: The 'Chapter 2. Creating an Activation Key for Virtual Machines' and 'Chapter...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 6.13.0
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Assignee: Adam Lazik
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Reported: 2023-02-08 13:03 UTC by Jayant Bhatia
Modified: 2023-08-03 17:35 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker SAT-15733 0 None None None 2023-02-08 13:04:15 UTC

Description Jayant Bhatia 2023-02-08 13:03:28 UTC
Document URL: 

https://dxp-docp-prod.apps.ext-waf.spoke.prod.us-west-2.aws.paas.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.13/html-single/configuring_virtual_machine_subscriptions_in_red_hat_satellite/index?lb_target=preview


Section Number and Name: 

Chapter 2. Creating an Activation Key for Virtual Machines

Chapter 3. Attaching a Host-based Subscription to Hypervisors


Describe the issue: 

Satellite 6.13 has by default SCA enabled on it. If SCA is enabled, then there is no option to add Subscriptions to the Activation Key and to attach subscriptions to the hosts/hypervisors on Content Hosts page. Hence the steps mentioned in above 2 Chapters are not valid since Satellite has SCA enabled.


Suggestions for improvement:

There should be a disclaimer or a note added for both of these chapters which should mention that these chapters/steps are valid only if SCA is disabled on Satellite and Satellite has by default SCA enabled on it.


Additional information: "Chapter 6. Registering Virtual Machines to use a Host-based Subscription" in same documentation is also only valid if SCA is disabled on Satellite. If SCA is enabled, user should always prefer registering client to Satellite using Global Registration feature mentioned in 'Chapter 3. Registering Hosts to Satellite' in 'Managing Hosts' documentation. And not using the subscription-manager command mentioned in "Chapter 6. Registering Virtual Machines to use a Host-based Subscription" as this is a deprecated method.

Comment 2 Adam Lazik 2023-02-15 15:08:03 UTC
Hello!
Taking over this ticket after agreement with Marie Hornickova and Brian Angelica.
Created PR: https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/satellite-6-documentation/docs-Red_Hat_Satellite_6/-/merge_requests/1659
Currently verifying the documentation changes with SMEs.

Comment 4 Jayant Bhatia 2023-02-21 12:42:45 UTC
Thank you Adam! The updated doc looks perfect


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