Timer not activated in kickstart environment (default Red Hat Satellite template)

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Hello, Red Hat Satellite (6.13) ships some default templates to register the InsightsClient during Kickstart deployments of VMs. It runs a simple insights-client --register as last step of the deployment, the registration works, but the timer (unit file) is not activated and fails with "No loaded timers found"

I assume that this is an issue of the chrooted environment of the kickstart installation, where the systemctl commands do not work properly in the installation-context.

enabling the timer manually in a second kickstart step, works - since the "enable" command works also in the kickstarter environment. insights-client --register systemctl enable insights-client.timer

Maybe a check for chroot, in the systemctl wrapper could be a solution. https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-core/blob/13592d99af5161bf7c2bd9326b84c707b04458ec/insights/client/schedule.py#L56

Please let me know if this should be fixed in the RH Satellite templates instead.

Best Klaus