Chapter 6. Registering Clients
You can register a client running a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6, 7 or 8 operating system to Capsule Servers that you configure for load balancing. For more information about registering clients and configuring them to use Puppet, see Registering Hosts in the Managing Hosts guide.
To register clients, proceed to one of the following procedures:
6.1. Registering Clients Using the Bootstrap Script
To register clients, enter the following command on the client. You must complete the registration procedure for each client.
Prerequisite
Ensure that you install the bootstrap script on the client and change the script’s file permissions to executable. For more information, see Registering Hosts to Red Hat Satellite Using The Bootstrap Script in the Managing Hosts guide.
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, enter the following command:
# /usr/libexec/platform-python bootstrap.py \ --login=admin \ --server loadbalancer.example.com \ --organization="Your_Organization" \ --location="Your_Location" \ --hostgroup="Your_Hostgroup" \ --activationkey=your_activation_key \ --enablerepos=rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-6.8-rpms \ --puppet-ca-port 8141 \ 1 --force 2
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 6, or 5, enter the following command:
# python bootstrap.py --login=admin \ --server loadbalancer.example.com \ --organization="Your_Organization" \ --location="Your_Location" \ --hostgroup="Your_Hostgroup" \ --activationkey=your_activation_key \ --enablerepos=rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-6.8-rpms \ --puppet-ca-port 8141 \ 1 --force 2
The script prompts for the password corresponding to the Satellite user name you entered with the --login option.
6.2. Registering Clients Manually
To register clients manually, complete the following procedure on each client that you register.
Procedure
Remove the
katello-ca-consumerpackage if it is installed:# yum remove 'katello-ca-consumer*'
Install the
katello-ca-consumerpackage from the load balancer:# rpm -Uvh \ http://loadbalancer.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpmRegister the client and include the
--serverurland--baseurloptions:# subscription-manager register --org=Your_Organization \ --activationkey=Your_Activation_Key \ --serverurl=https://loadbalancer.example.com:8443/rhsm \ --baseurl=https://loadbalancer.example.com/pulp/repos
