Subscription certificate expires less than its contract period on Red Hat Satellite 6.
Issue
- There is a 4 or 5 hour gap in the time a subscription expires and the future dated one starts.
- Subscription Management issues a subscription certificate file from EST midnight to UTC midnight as the following available period:
example:
+-------------------------------------------+
Entitlement Certificate
+-------------------------------------------+
Certificate:
Path: 7100000000000000000.pem
Version: 3.3
Serial: 7100000000000000000
Start Date: 2019-01-16 05:00:00+00:00 <== ***
End Date: 2020-01-15 23:59:59+00:00 <== ***
Pool ID: 8a850123012301230123012301230123
- This means that the old certificate will expires without waiting for the next new subscription to start provided if this subscription is renewed. Hence, this makes 5 hours downtime for
Content Hosts
registered with Red Hat Satellite 6 to again consume the correct renewed subscription.
Environment
- Red Hat Customer Portal
- Red Hat Subscription Management
- Red Hat Satellite (Manifest)
Subscriber exclusive content
A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more.