Subscription Manger creates D-Bus messages when the entitlement status changes.
There are two signals that correspond to the messages that are sent:
@dbus.service.signal(
dbus_interface='com.redhat.SubscriptionManager.EntitlementStatus',
signature='i')
def entitlement_status_changed(self, status_code):
@dbus.service.signal(dbus_interface=dbus.PROPERTIES_IFACE,
signature="sa{sv}as")
def PropertiesChanged(self, interface_name, changed_properties,
invalidated_properties):
The first contains a code with the status of the machine. It used to be consumed by the process rhsm_icon. The messages displayed there are keyed from the integer value. Those messages are not specific to actual installed products.
The second contains a dictionary that contains 3 parameters: Version, Status, and Entitlements. Version and Status [enum below] have single string values. Entitlements is a dictionary that uses the unique identifier [SKU] of each installed product as a key. The value is a tuple that contains the name of the installed product, a state code [enum below], and the compliance message for the product. All installed products will appear in this data set.
statuses = ["valid", "invalid", "partial", "unknown"]
states = ["future_subscribed", "subscribed", "not_subscribed", "expired", "partially_subscribed"]
$ dbus-monitor --system --monitor
signal sender=:1.10 -> dest=(null destination) serial=4 path=/EntitlementStatus; interface=com.redhat.SubscriptionManager.EntitlementStatus; member=entitlement_status_changed
int32 1
signal sender=:1.10 -> dest=(null destination) serial=5 path=/EntitlementStatus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=PropertiesChanged
string "com.redhat.SubscriptionManager"
array [
dict entry(
string "Status"
variant string "invalid"
)
dict entry(
string "Entitlements"
variant array [
dict entry(
string "37069"
struct {
string "Management Bits"
string "not_subscribed"
string "Not supported by a valid subscription."
}
)
dict entry(
string "37068"
struct {
string "Large File Support Bits"
string "not_subscribed"
string "Not supported by a valid subscription."
}
)
]
)
dict entry(
string "Version"
variant string "1.0"
)
]
array [
]
In a scenario where the machine is unregistered, the output for PropertiesChanged will appear as follows:
signal sender=:1.8 -> dest=(null destination) serial=5 path=/EntitlementStatus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=PropertiesChanged
string "com.redhat.SubscriptionManager"
array [
dict entry(
string "Status"
variant string "System is not registered."
)
dict entry(
string "Version"
variant string "1.0"
)
]
array [
]
There is a means to ‘poke’ the rhsm daemon to make it produce the first message on demand:
@dbus.service.method(
dbus_interface="com.redhat.SubscriptionManager.EntitlementStatus",
out_signature='i')
def check_status(self):
Entitlement Status employs the standard Properties interface methods:
@dbus.service.method(dbus_interface=dbus.PROPERTIES_IFACE,
in_signature="ss", out_signature="v")
def Get(self, interface_name, property_name):
@dbus.service.method(dbus_interface=dbus.PROPERTIES_IFACE,
in_signature="s", out_signature="a{sv}")
def GetAll(self, interface_name):
As the available information is read-only, no other access retrictions have been implemented. If the capabilities are expanded in the future to include system manipulation, then access control will be added.