RHEA-2012:0823 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new subscription-manager-migration-data package is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The new Subscription Management tooling allows users to understand the specific
products, which have been installed on their machines, and the specific
subscriptions, which their machines consume.

This enhancement update adds the subscription-manager-migration-data package to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The package allows for migrations from Red Hat
Network Classic Hosted to hosted certificate-based subscription management.
(BZ#773030)

All users who require subscription-manager-migration-data are advised to install
this new package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 773030 - add subscription-manager-migration-data to RHEL 6.3
• BZ - 795290 - subscription-manager-migration-data-el6 is not creating "/usr/share/rhsm/product/RHEL-6" folder
• BZ - 799103 - no mapping for s390x product cert included in the subscription-manager-migration-data
• BZ - 811633 - channel-cert-mapping.txt is missing a mapping for product 167 "Red Hat CloudForms"
• BZ - 811779 - subscription-manager-migration should require subscription-manager-migration-migration-data
• BZ - 814360 - migration product cert Workstation-HPN-x86_64-97c33a65d166-134.pem has been removed from rhn-definitions
• BZ - 815433 - sam-rhel-x86_64-server-6-beta channel mapping needs replacement in channel-cert-mapping.txt

CVEs

(none)

References

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