Virt-who Configurations

The Virt-who configurations page can be accessed via the infrastructure menu:

Infrastructure > Virt-who configurations

The Virt-who configurations plugin connects to KVM, RHV, and VMware vSphere hypervisors in order to count RHEL instances for the purpose of RHEL subscription management.

The Virt-who configurations page is a part of the Virt-who configurations plugin and only exists if this plugin is installed on your orcharhino.

Viewing a List of Existing Virt-who Configurations

Navigate to Infrastructure > Virt-who configurations to view a list of existing Virt-who configurations.

List of existing Virt-who configurations

  • Click the Create Config button (1) to create a new Virt-who configuration.

  • Click the Help button (2) to view in inbuilt help.

  • The table (3) lists existing Virt-who configurations.

  • The Actions menu (4) holds two functions:

    • you can edit an existing Virt-who configuration

    • and you can delete an existing Virt-who configuration.

Viewing a Virt-who Configuration

Navigate to Infrastructure > Virt-who configurations and select an existing Virt-who configuration:

Viewing an existing Virt-who configuration

  • Click the Edit button (1) to edit the selected Virt-who configuration.

  • Click the Delete button (2) to delete the selected Virt-who configuration.

  • The table displays the status and settings of the selected Virt-who configurations.

  • Click the Deploy tab (4) to see how to deploy this configuration.

Creating a Virt-who Configuration

Navigate to Infrastructure > Virt-who configurations and click the Create Config button to create a Virt-who configuration:

Creating a new Virt-who configuration part 1

  • Enter the name of the Virt-who configuration in the Name (1) field.

  • Select the type of the hypervisor in the Hypervisor Type drop down menu (2).

  • Enter the FQDN of the server in the Hypervisor Server field (3).

  • Enter the user name in the Hypervisor Username field (4).

  • Enter the corresponding password in the Hypervisor Password field (5).

  • Define how often to check the hypervisor for changes in the Interval drop down menu (6).

Creating a new Virt-who configuration part 2

  • Enter the orcharhino FQDN in the orcharhino server FQDN field (7).

  • Select the type of identification from the Hypervisor ID drop down menu (8). You may choose between its host name, UUID, and HWUUID.

  • You may optionally choose to filter the access rights of virt-who hypervisors to hosts using the Filtering drop down menu (9). You can choose to allow or block lists of hosts.

  • The Enable debugging output checkbox (10) allows you to activate debugging output.

  • You may optionally enter an HTTP proxy via the HTTP proxy field (11) to connect to the hypervisor.

  • You may optionally exclude hosts from using the HTTP proxy via the Ignore proxy field (12).

  • Click the Submit button (13) to save your changes to orcharhino.

Editing a Virt-who Configuration

Navigate to Infrastructure > Virt-who configurations and select an existing Virt-who configuration.

Editing a Virt-who configuration is essentially the same as creating a Virt-who configuration, with the difference that fields will be prefilled with the settings of the Virt-who configuration being edited.