9.3. Subscribing to the Required Entitlements

Procedure 9.1. Subscribing to Required Entitlements using Subscription Manager

1. Register your system with the Content Delivery Network, entering your Customer Portal Username and Password when prompted:

   # subscription-manager register

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2. Find the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization subscription pools and note down the pool IDs.

   # subscription-manager list --available

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3. Use the pool IDs located in the previous step to attach the entitlements to the system:

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=poolid

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   Note

   To find out what subscriptions are currently attached, run:

   # subscription-manager list --consumed

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   To list all enabled repositories, run:

   # yum repolist

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4. Ensure all hosts remain on Red Hat Entrprise Linux 7.3:

   subscription-manager release --set=7.3

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5. Disable all existing repositories:

   # subscription-manager repos --disable=*

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6. Enable the required repositories.

   Important

   Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x has reached End Of Life (EOL). Users with Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) must use the repositories in https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3194482 to keep the environment up and running.
   If you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts, little endian on IBM POWER8 hardware, enable the following repositories instead:

   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhev-mgmt-agent-for-power-le-rpms
   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-le-rpms
   

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   Important

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts, little endian on IBM POWER8 is not part of the Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) offering.
7. Ensure that all packages currently installed are up to date:

   # yum update

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