Registering against SMT server Subscription expired messages

imoore · July 13, 2015, 9:23am

Hi,
Just did an upgrade of our GMS server - SLES11SP2> SP3, then GWM2.0>2.1
I have all the appropriate repos mirrored on our SMT server and our subscription for SLES and GroupWise are current and the SMT server is syncing every night.
I ran the SLES upgrade using Yast2 wagon, it added the new repos and upgraded successfully, however the registration failed with the following error:

[QUOTE]Product: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (x86_64, )
Subscription: expired (full version)
Message: Subscription is expired.
Expiry: 2008-05-01 01:00:00
Product: GroupWise Mobility Service (, )
Subscription: expired (full version)
Message: Subscription is expired.
Expiry: 2008-05-01 01:00:00[/QUOTE]

A zypper lr showed the SLES11SP3 & GMS repos were actually added and active.

Then I did the GMS update and had the same errors. Here’s what zypper lr gives:

I’ve highlighted the active repos in blue (haven’t cleaned up the old ones yet).
When I look at the SMT Subscription Report, it’s listing a number of expired subscriptions, including SLES expired 2008 and GMS expired in April 2015. Both products were renewed this year and the Subscription report shows this in the Active subscription section.
It looks like the problem is the Activation codes on the existing GMS server haven’t changed, so they have now expired. Looking at the report, there are 10 other servers in the same situation. Is there some way to change the activation code to the current one?

Cheers,
Ian

Jens-U · July 13, 2015, 6:40pm

Hi Ian,

Is there some way to change the activation code to the current one

have you tried to re-register the machines with the new activation code? From “suse_register --help”:

[CODE]Example:

suse_register.pl -n -a email=company@example.com -a regcode-sles=03474hdkndg3934957340[/CODE]

A different way I used with NCC (have not yet tried with SCC) was to move machines to the new subscription NCC(web)-wise.

Regards,
Jens

imoore · July 14, 2015, 5:25am

Attempting to re-register with the current activation codes just gave the same message about the expired subscriptions. Reading the suse_register help, I noticed the -E option to erase the current subscription. Running that and then re-registering with the current activation codes seems to have successfully updated the codes. Oh, and contrary to what the help info says, the command is suse_register without the .pl!

Thanks for your help.