rhn_register – Manage Red Hat Network registration using the rhnreg_ks command

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rhn_register – Manage Red Hat Network registration using the rhnreg_ks command

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

-

supply an activation key for use with registration

channels

-

Default:

[]

Optionally specify a list of comma-separated channels to subscribe to upon successful registration.

enable_eus

boolean

  • no

  • yes

If no, extended update support will be requested.

nopackages

boolean

added in 2.5

  • no

  • yes

If yes, the registered node will not upload its installed packages information to Satellite server

password

-

Red Hat Network password

profilename

-

added in 2.0

supply an profilename for use with registration

server_url

-

Default:

"Current value of I(serverURL) from C(/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date) is the default"

Specify an alternative Red Hat Network server URL

sslcacert

-

added in 2.1

supply a custom ssl CA certificate file for use with registration

state

-

  • present

  • absent

whether to register (present), or unregister (absent) a system

systemorgid

-

added in 2.1

supply an organizational id for use with registration

username

-

Red Hat Network username



Notes

Note

  • In order to register a system, rhnreg_ks requires either a username and password, or an activationkey.


Examples

# Unregister system from RHN.
- rhn_register:
    state: absent
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass

# Register as user (joe_user) with password (somepass) and auto-subscribe to available content.
- rhn_register:
    state: present
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass

# Register with activationkey (1-222333444) and enable extended update support.
- rhn_register:
    state: present
    activationkey: 1-222333444
    enable_eus: true

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

# Register as user (joe_user) with password (somepass) against a satellite
# server specified by (server_url).
- rhn_register:
    state: present
    username: joe_user
    password: somepass'
    server_url: https://xmlrpc.my.satellite/XMLRPC

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

Status

Authors

  • James Laska

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