[sles-beta] Question concerning SUSEConnect subscription register process

[Will Stephenson]

On Monday 07 Jul 2014 10:37:48 urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
> Upon registering a new installation against NCC / SMT a unique installation
> UID gets created The registration against a subscription gets done by this
> UID.
> 
> On a second installation of the very same server again a new UID gets
> created. Now in my subscription register list I have two registrations but
> only one server So I have to clean up my subscription registrations
> manually and regularly, else there might be to many subscriptions "eaten"
> by non-existing servers.
> 
> In the operations team, there very often installations get redone,
> interrupted etc. Wrong orders, customers not satisfied after installation,
> etc. So I miss a mechanism where I can de-register a server node first upon
> re-installation Something like SUSEConnect unregister `hostname`

The SCC team are currently working on duplicate detection, de-duplication, 
product updates and migration from NCC-registered systems to SCC.  These will 
give registration operations an 'at most once' semantic.

There is "deregister" API already, but it's not exposed in the SUSEConnect 
CLI, yet.

Will