community.general.rhn_register – Manage Red Hat Network registration using the rhnreg_ks command

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.rhn_register.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Manage registration to the Red Hat Network.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

rhnreg_ks
either libxml2 or lxml

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
activationkey string		Supply an activation key for use with registration.
ca_cert path		Supply a custom ssl CA certificate file for use with registration. aliases: sslcacert
channels list / elements=string	Default: []	Optionally specify a list of channels to subscribe to upon successful registration.
enable_eus boolean	no ← yes	If `no`, extended update support will be requested.
force boolean added in 2.0.0 of community.general	no ← yes	Force registration, even if system is already registered.
nopackages boolean	no ← yes	If `yes`, the registered node will not upload its installed packages information to Satellite server.
password string		Red Hat Network password.
profilename string		Supply an profilename for use with registration.
server_url string		Specify an alternative Red Hat Network server URL. The default is the current value of serverURL from `/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date`.
state string	absent present ←	Whether to register (`present`), or unregister (`absent`) a system.
systemorgid string		Supply an organizational id for use with registration.
username string		Red Hat Network username.

Notes

Note

This is for older Red Hat products. You probably want the community.general.redhat_subscription module instead.
In order to register a system, rhnreg_ks requires either a username and password, or an activationkey.

Examples

- name: Unregister system from RHN
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: absent
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass

- name: Register as user with password and auto-subscribe to available content
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: present
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass

- name: Register with activationkey and enable extended update support
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: present
    activationkey: 1-222333444
    enable_eus: yes

- name: Register with activationkey and set a profilename which may differ from the hostname
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: present
    activationkey: 1-222333444
    profilename: host.example.com.custom

- name: Register as user with password against a satellite server
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: present
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass
    server_url: https://xmlrpc.my.satellite/XMLRPC

- name: Register as user with password and enable channels
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: present
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass
    channels: rhel-x86_64-server-6-foo-1,rhel-x86_64-server-6-bar-1

- name: Force-register as user with password to ensure registration is current on server
  community.general.rhn_register:
    state: present
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass
    server_url: https://xmlrpc.my.satellite/XMLRPC
    force: yes

Authors

James Laska (@jlaska)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/rhn_register_module.html