Description of problem: test-wren status has become unentitled. I have tried deleting and re-registering the profile in RHN but system does not have any entitlement? Some background is that this machine is a VM in a VMware ESX environment. It lives on a completely isolated network for testing purposes and is a machine cloned from wren (sid 1006970824). The error message is below. Possible cause is that the system shares a real IP address with stork (sid 1007244564) for the sole purpose of doing system updates. Test-wren had existed for 6 months and was updated in this way until it became unentitled with an event from event history: Summary: removed system entitlement Details: Management Time: 24-AUG-07 Further info from running "up2date-nox -u": Error Message: Service not enabled for system profile: "test-wren" Error Class Code: 31 Error Class Info: This system does not have a valid entitlement for Red Hat Network. Please visit https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/systems/SystemEntitlements.do or login at https://rhn.redhat.com, and from the "Your RHN" tab, select "Subscription Management" to enable RHN service for this system. Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
The link again to test-wren (was put in the link field originally but I can't see it being referenced): https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/systems/details/Overview.do?sid=1007933207
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I've since deleted the profile for 1007933207. I confirmed that SIDs can't share the same ip address so simply allocated a separate IP address for these servers for the purpose of updates. The reason for this problem was that production machines were cloned in a VMware ESX and put onto an isolated network. When testing RHN updates I just used to use a temporary IP address for each of the cloned machines (but something changed on RHN to stop this) and bring up that interface on the real network. Now I have to use separate IP-addresses for each cloned VM even though I have created new uuids and new profiles in RHN and am using separate licenses. BTW activation keys are a pain when cloning VMs in RHEL5 although possible to work around (there are legitimate reasons for doing this) even when you want to use separate licenses.
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