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Chapter 1. Red Hat Lightspeed client overview

The Red Hat Lightspeed client (insights-client) is the client for Red Hat Lightspeed. Run insights-client from the command line.

1.1. Red Hat Lightspeed client distribution
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Red Hat Lightspeed client is available for the following releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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RHEL 10

Distributed with Red Hat Lightspeed client pre-installed.

RHEL 9

Distributed with Red Hat Lightspeed client pre-installed.

RHEL 8

Distributed with Red Hat Lightspeed client pre-installed, unless RHEL 8 was installed as a minimal installation.

RHEL 7

Distributed with the Red Hat Lightspeed client RPM package loaded but not installed.

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Red Hat Lightspeed client installation on older versions

RHEL versions 6 and 7 do not come with the Red Hat Lightspeed client pre-installed. If you have one of these versions, run the following commands in your terminal: 

[root@server ~]# yum install insights-client
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Then, register the system to Red Hat Lightspeed: 

[root@server ~]# insights-client --register
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