Certificate Based RHEL Management

[KyleT]

Hi,

We are using "Certificate based management" rather than "Classic management" to register and subscribe our RHEL servers to RHN as recommended by Red Hat. Our test system is successfully registered with Red Hat Network using the subscription-manager program. The following code in the install script, performs the check for Red Hat subscription:

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# Check that the Red Hat installation is valid
if [ -x /usr/sbin/rhn_check ] && ! /usr/sbin/rhn_check 2>/dev/null; then
       echo "Your Red Hat Installation is not registered or does not have proper entitlements." >&2
       echo "Please register or enable entitlements at rhn.redhat.com." >&2
       exit 1

The program, /usr/sbin/rhn_check, to check the whether the installation is valid is only appropriate for systems subscribed with RHN Classic and is not suitable for systems subscribed using "Certificate based management". Do NagiosXI plan to support the "Certificate based management" subscriptions as recommended by Red Hat? I expect a simple update to the install script to perform an additional check using the /usr/sbin/subscription-manager program is all that would be required.

For the time being, we have commented out these checks in the installer script to get Nagios XI installed.

Many Thanks
Kyle

[lmiltchev]

Kyle,

Thanks for the feedback! We will be looking into this and eventually modifying our install script to support "Certificate based management" subscriptions with Red Hat.