Chapter 6. Enabling simple content access with Red Hat Subscription Management
The process of migrating Red Hat accounts and organizations that primarily use Red Hat Subscription Management for subscription management to use simple content access begins on October 25, 2024 and will be complete in November 2024.
6.1. Enabling simple content access for your Red Hat Subscription Management managed systems
Manual activation of simple content access is no longer necessary.
6.2. Completing post-enablement steps for Red Hat Subscription Management
After the migration for your Red Hat account and organization is complete and simple content access is enabled, review the articles in the Additional resources section for more information about using the simple content access mode and configuring and working with the services in the Hybrid Cloud Console.
- Ensure that you understand how this change to the simple content access mode affects the workflow that your organization uses. If you had any customized processes that relied upon artifacts from the old entitlement-based mode, such as checking for valid subscriptions on a per-system basis, these processes will need to be discarded or redesigned to be compatible with the new simple content access workflow.
Find out more about additional services in the Hybrid Cloud Console that can improve your subscription and system management processes and determine if you are taking advantage of them. See the Hybrid Cloud Console at https://console.redhat.com to explore these services.
- Authorize your Red Hat organization’s users to access the services of the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console by setting up user groups, assigning roles, and doing other tasks in the role-based user access control (RBAC) system.
- Authorize your Red Hat organization’s users to view system inventory data with appropriate filtering by creating workspaces that classify systems into logical groups.
- Configure Hybrid Cloud Console notifications so that alerts about specific events in Hybrid Cloud Console services can go to a named group of users or go to applications, APIs, or webhooks for additional custom actions.
- Activate the subscriptions service, if this service is not already active, to begin account-wide usage reporting of Red Hat products.
Explore the capabilities, including subscription and system management capabilities, of the Hybrid Cloud Console and how workflows for some of these capabilities might have changed from the workflows that were previously available in the Red Hat Customer Portal at access.redhat.com:
- Tracking usage reporting for Red Hat products and variants on the product platforms pages of the subscriptions service.
- Tracking and managing your system infrastructure in the inventory service.
- Using activation keys to help with system registration, setting system purpose, and enabling repositories.
- Creating and exporting manifests for use within your Red Hat Satellite environment to find, access, and download content from the Red Hat Content Delivery Network.
- Determining whether the additional capabilities of Red Hat Insights, including the advisor, vulnerability, remediation, patch, and other services are right for your environment.
Additional resources
The following articles are actively being updated to address customer questions and concerns during and after the account migration process that began on October 25, 2024.
