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How to register multiple Content Hosts with same UUID to Red Hat Satellite 6?

Environment

  Red Hat Satellite 6.5 and above.
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux with subscription-manager

Issue

  How can I register multiple machines which have the same UUID (BIOS/Motherboard ID) to Red Hat Satellite 6.5?
  The system properly registered and subscribe to Red Hat Satellite is not visible on the WebUI even after changing the context switch to any organization and any location.
  Experiencing following error while trying to register Content Hosts with the same UUID to Red Hat Satellite 6.5:
HTTP error (500 - Internal Server Error): Multiple profiles found. Consider removing XXX which match this host.

Resolution

[root@client ~]# vi /etc/rhsm/facts/uuid.facts 
{"dmi.system.uuid": "customuuid"}

* customuuid = hostname which is unique for every machine.
[root@client ~]# subscription-manager facts|grep dmi.system.uuid
dmi.system.uuid: 45AA7104-5CB0-4A75-945D-7173C8DC5783

Administer > Settings > Content(tab) > Host Duplicate DMI UUIDs - Add the UUID in the form of an array

- Reregister client machine. (Reregistering of both systems may be needed if the profile was unregistered by using the --force option)

- Verify that UUID in systems is different from the client machine:
Hosts -> All Hosts -> Client machine -> facts -> dmi -> systems

Root Cause

parameter that should be unique.

Diagnostic Steps

Check for duplicate resource errors like the one below in /var/log/foreman/production.log

2020-05-10T20:00:49 [E|kat|388f6507] POST: https://satellite.example.com/pulp/api/v2/consumers/: {"id":"ede5aaea-f460-48fb-aa2a-f8d49c7eb373","display_name":"client.example.com"}: {"content_type"=>"application/json", "accept"=>"application/json"}
409 Conflict: {"error": {"code": "PLP0018", "data": {"resource_id": "ede5aaea-f460-48fb-aa2a-f8d49c7eb373"}, "description": "Duplicate resource: ede5aaea-f460-48fb-aa2a-f8d49c7eb373", "sub_errors": []}, "http_request_method": "POST", "exception": null, "error_message": "Duplicate resource: ede5aaea-f460-48fb-aa2a-f8d49c7eb373", "_href": "/pulp/api/v2/consumers/", "http_status": 409, "resource_id": "ede5aaea-f460-48fb-aa2a-f8d49c7eb373", "traceback": null}

Check for duplicate RHSM facts between 2 hosts in /var/lib/rhsm/facts/facts.json:

{"dmi.system.uuid": "Not Present", "proc_cpuinfo.common.cpuid_level": "13", "virt.host_type": "kvm", "dmi.bios.address": "0xe8000", "lscpu.l1d_cache": "32K", "dmi.chassis.manufacturer": "QEMU", "distribution.name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server", "lscpu.l1i_cache": "32K", "dmi.chassis.security_status": "Unknown", "dmi.memory.error_correction_type": "Multi-bit ECC", "dmi.processor.type": "Central Processor", 
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"dmi.memory.array_handle": "0x1000", "dmi.system.sku_number": "Not Specified", "dmi.processor.asset_tag": "Not Specified", "dmi.meta.cpu_socket_count": "8", "dmi.system.wake-up_type": "Power Switch"}