Can I move RHN subscription to a new server?

[Alzhy]

We've 1 RHN subscription.

We've yet to register the machine in RHN as it is a temporary/exploratory environment.

If I register the machine and later on destroy the machine and install RH on the permanent server, will RHN registration give me a hard time? Temporary and permanent server will have different hostnames and different machine make and model.

I guess what I am trying to figure out is how RHN tracks subscriptions and what if the server is changed?

I need to connect to RHN as I need a number of RPMs but this server I am using right now is just temporary. And I fear once we've the permanent server -- that I will have difficulty getting the server on RHN once more.

[Steven Schweda]

Ask the vendor?

Why would you rely on any unofficial advice
which you might get here?

[Alzhy]

Coz of the obvious good sir?

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can register as many machines as you want. To use the update services, you must have a "entitlement". You can have less entitlements than servers registered, but you won't be able to update those servers without entitlement.

I recently removed from the red hat network two systems, and their entitlements where assigned to two other new servers.

[Jared Middleton]

Alzhy,

No problem. You simply need to login to RHN and manually delete your existing (old) server Profile. Then, you should have no problem reusing the now free'd up subscription/entitlement on a different server. I've had to do similar server 'leap frogging' multiple times since 2002.

-Jared

[dirk dierickx]

your registration is not tied to any machine. you can buy a bundle and assign them to systems as they come and go. if a system is removed the registration can be used for another one.

if you want to use a test environment, you can also give centos a try. it's free and a 100% compatible version of RH offerings.