Problem Statement

The Satellite inventory upload plugin currently reports all systems registered to a Satellite organization, whether they are running or not. As a result, offline systems appear in HCC Inventory [0] as if they successfully checked in, which can be misleading.

Here's a simple way to reproduce the behavior:

• Register a system to a Satellite organization with inventory upload enabled.
• Shut down the system.
• Let the upload plugin run overnight. The next day, check the host status in HCC, and you'll notice that the "Last seen" date has been updated.

This behavior is inconsistent with other (client-based) reporters. Both insights-client and subscription-manager (for RHSM users) naturally stop reporting when a system is offline.

To ensure a consistent user experience across our data collection tools, I believe an "offline check" mechanism should be implemented in the inventory upload plugin.

[0] https://console.redhat.com/insights/inventory