Change RHEL 6 Workstation to Server

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Hello All,
My IT manager recently made a mistake in re-ordering the subscription for our sluster of systems and ordered RHEL 6 server subscriptions instead of work station subscriptions. I tried to have him change the subscrition to wokstation, but Redhat would not do that. Is there any way to have the system registration type change from Workstation to Server without a complete system reinstallation?

Thanks,
Karl-Heinz Konrad

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he Community Member 30 points
10 October 2015 3:14 AM

Never mind, my Google foo was not strong. I just found this article https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1386673, which is exactly what I was looking for.

he Community Member 30 points
10 October 2015 6:11 AM

So I followed the procedures in the above article, and even after I have removed the redhat-release-workstation-6Workstation rpm and replaced it with the redhat-release-server-6Server rpm, the subscritption-manager sommand is still trying to register and attach the system using workstation. Here is an example of what I run and the results:
[root@nynode-19 ~]# subscription-manager clean
All local data removed
[root@nynode-19 ~]# subscription-manager register --auto
Username: help@wai.com
Password:
The system has been registered with id:
Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Status: Not Subscribed

[root@nynode-19 ~]# rpm -qa|grep 6Server
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.3.0.3.el6.x86_64
[root@nynode-19 ~]# rpm -qa|grep 6Work
[root@nynode-19 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
[root@nynode-19 ~]# cat /etc/sys
sysconfig/ sysctl.d/ system-release-cpe
sysctl.conf system-release
[root@nynode-19 ~]# cat /etc/system-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
[root@nynode-19 ~]# cat /etc/system-release-cpe
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

Any help would be appreciated!

he Community Member 30 points
10 October 2015 7:04 AM

So I added a custom entry to /etc/rhsm/facts using the JSON format and when I list the facts using subscription-manager facts --list I get the correct Red Hat Enterprise Server entry in the facts list, but when I try and register and attach the system to a subscription, the system is still trying to attach it as RHEL workstation!

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