RHEL first subscription what am I doing wrong
So I wanted to test out RHEL,
I created a VM without issue but now am unable to associate a subscription with the server.
The server registered fine and I added a trial subscription license for 30 Day Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Self-Supported Evaluation ;
The license appears active but when attempting to associate the license with the server:
On the portal I get
No available subscriptions found.
On subscription manager CLI subscription-manager list --available
No available subscription pools to list
I can't believe it is this difficult to get a trial going what am I missing?
Thanks
Richard
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Guru
6222 points
Richard,
Did you install the same product as your subscription?
RHEL has 3 kinds:
1) server
2) workstation
3) desktop
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit
Hello
Are you using any guides to help you? Please also confirm if this is RHEL7 or 6 you are testing.
For example, for RHEL7, there is a section in the System Administration Guide Registering the System and Managing Subscriptions
One possible cause could be if your system has more sockets than the entitlement allows.
As per this solution
Hello
Is it possible you used this subscription before, for example for another VM which you are no longer using?
If so, you would need to unregister that other system, from the system or from the portal. So the following solution:
How to delete System Profiles for those registered with Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM)?
Please also try:
subscription-manager list --available --all
From the subscription-manager manual page:
LIST OPTIONS The list command lists all of the subscriptions that are compatible with a system. The options allow the list to be filtered by subscriptions that are used by the system or unused subscriptions that are available to the system.
--all Lists all possible subscriptions that have been purchased, even if they don't match the architecture of the system. This is used with the --available option.
--available Lists available subscriptions which are not yet attached to the system.
Richard,
I'm sorry that your first impression was not a good one. The behavior that you experienced does not usually occur.
When subscriptions are added to an account there is a process in the back-end of subscription services that then makes the entitlements available to the subscription tools. Usually the latency between the subscription being added to the account and the entitlements being available is minimal, but there are times that the process has increased latency. I believe that is what you experienced since the issue resolved itself.
The increases in latency continues to be investigated by our Engineering staff; there is nothing you did incorrectly or could have done to affect the behavior.
I apologize for this issue and hope the remainder of your evaluation performs better. We appreciate your efforts to reach out and help make the experience better.
I think I am having the same problem - I'm afraid I'm underwhelmed by the evaluation experience...
subscription-manager list --available --all
+-------------------------------------------+
Available Subscriptions
+-------------------------------------------+
Subscription Name: 30 Day Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Self-Supported
Evaluation
Provides: Red Hat Container Images Beta
Red Hat Beta
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host Beta
Oracle Java (for RHEL Server)
Red Hat Container Images
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
SKU: RH00065
Pool ID: 8a85f9814fd7246f014fe0ece3795f63
Available: 2
Suggested: 1
Service Level: Self-Support
Service Type: L1-L3
Multi-Entitlement: Yes
Ends: 10/18/2015
System Type: Physical
subscription-manager attach --auto
Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Status: Not Subscribed
Hmmm...
I have the same problem with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)". I was trying to install OSP7, undercloud. I had the undercloud properly installed. We had a power outage. Now in my undercloud, it doesn’t even list the subscriptions.
[xxx ~]$ sudo subscription-manager list --available No available subscription pools to list
I tried re-registering and that went ok.
sudo subscription-manager register --force Username:xxx Password: The system has been registered with ID: xxxxxx
But, it doesn’t list anything when I want to get the pool. I had this problem earlier and when I used to register again using force, the problem went away. Now, this persists. The number of sockets is 2.
Any help on this will be great!
Thanks.
Newbie
15 points
yum update
Available: lvm2-2.02.118-2.el6.x86_64 (rhel-6-server-rpms)
lvm2 = 2.02.118-2.el6
Available: lvm2-2.02.118-3.el6_7.1.x86_64 (rhel-6-server-rpms)
lvm2 = 2.02.118-3.el6_7.1
Available: lvm2-2.02.118-3.el6_7.2.x86_64 (rhel-6-server-rpms)
lvm2 = 2.02.118-3.el6_7.2
Available: lvm2-2.02.118-3.el6_7.3.x86_64 (rhel-6-server-rpms)
lvm2 = 2.02.118-3.el6_7.3
Available: lvm2-2.02.118-3.el6_7.4.x86_64 (rhel-6-server-rpms)
lvm2 = 2.02.118-3.el6_7.4
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest [root@rosocial ~]#
I have the same issue as well. I guess the only option left with me is to buy the theory of delay between subscription and its actual activation. Lets see if things automatically start working overnight.
same experience here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NwEj_j3HA0k0sLb6UEVwEFsWNzISO4Fb/view?usp=sharing
Now I checked the system creation time in the portal and it is 1 hour ahead in time. i unregistered the machine changed the time on the machine and registered it again. after that i could assign subscription to the machine from the portal. https://drive.google.com/file/d/114KGIZd5PM5g2CKvFNc2pmz_gjaln2-P/view?usp=sharing
for some reason i do not know if that is really the solution for my problem because the creation time in the portal is wrong again ... ?????? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KH7vpCjtZvxBcVNvW9ET72ZyJrfg_wdQ/view?usp=sharing
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