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Reference Documents for Red Hat Products

• 1. Red Hat Subscription Management
  • 1.1. Subscription Reference
• 2. Repository & Satellite
• 3. Useful Links
• Appendix

1. Red Hat Subscription Management

# subscribe
subscription-manager register

# subscribe using username and password in line and auto-attach pool
subscription-manager register --username <username> --password <password> --auto-attach

# Pull the latest subscription data from the server
subscription-manager refresh

# Set a role for your system.
subscription-manager role --set="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"

# List available subscriptions
subscription-manager list --available

# attach subscription automatically with availalbe pool
subscription-manager attach --auto

# Use the pool ID of the subscription to attach the pool to the system.
subscription-manager attach --pool=<subscription-pool-id>

# examples for enabling repository
# enabling server repos
subscription-manager repos \
  --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms \
  --enable=rhel-server-rhscl-7-2.9.rpms

# enabling ansible repo
subscription-manager repos \
  --enable ansible-2-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

# Unregistering a system
subscription-manager remove --all
subscription-manager unregister
subscription-manager clean

1.1. Subscription Reference

• How to register and subscribe a system offline to the Red Hat Customer Portal
• How to register and subscribe a system to the Red Hat Customer Portal using Red Hat Subscription-Manager
• Common administrative commands in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, and 8 (Subscription Details, RHN ID, UUID)

2. Repository & Satellite

• How to create a local mirror of the latest update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, 8 without using Satellite server?

• Creating a Local Repository and Sharing With Disconnected/Offline/Air-gapped Systems [Master Article]

• Yum Repository Configuration Helper

  This tool will help you set up a simple Yum repository for your local machine or a small number of other machines to use.

• How to create local repository distributed through apache of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7/8 using DVD iso for update or installation?

3. Useful Links

• Red Hat on GitHub

Appendix