Satellite on Centos – The activation token specified could not be found on the server.

Ran into this problem when trying to add a client to satellite.

[root@localhost ~]# rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://192.168.11.22/XMLRPC --activationkey=75e725ba3f0420837eb212af0148243e

Error Message:
    Could not find token '75e725ba3f0420837eb212af0148243e'
Error Class Code: 60
Error Class Info:
     The activation token specified could not be found on the server.
     Please retry with a valid key.

It looks like the issue is that the key was missing some characters. The key was supposed to start with “1-” like below

[root@localhost ~]# rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://192.168.1.12/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-75e725ba3f0420837eb212af0148243e
This system is not subscribed to any channels.
RHN channel support will be disabled.

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Satellite on Centos – The activation token specified could not be found on the server.