Chapter 8. Deploying Red Hat Insights
If you are using Red Hat Insights as the data collection tool, deploy Red Hat Insights on every RHEL system that is managed by Red Hat Satellite.
Do these steps
To install Red Hat Insights, see the following information:
Learn more
To learn more about what data Red Hat Insights collects and your options for controlling that data, see the following information:
8.1. Installing Red Hat Insights
Install Red Hat Insights to collect information about your inventory.
Procedure
Install the Insights client on every RHEL system that is managed by Red Hat Satellite by using the following instructions:
The Insights client is installed by default on RHEL 8 and later systems unless the minimal installation option was used to install RHEL. However, the client must still be registered, as documented in the client installation instructions.
8.2. What data does Red Hat Insights collect?
When the Red Hat Insights client is installed on a system, it collects data about that system on a daily basis and sends it to the Red Hat Insights cloud application. The data might also be shared with other applications on the Cloud Services platform, such as inventory or subscription watch. Insights provides configuration and command options, including options for data obfuscation and data redaction, to manage that data.
For more information, see the Client Configuration Guide for Red Hat Insights, available with the Red Hat Insights product documentation.
You might also want to examine the types of data that Insights collects and sends to Red Hat or add controls to the data that is sent. For additional information that supplements the information available in the product documentation, see the following articles:
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For more information about the use of the
insights-client --offlinecommand to generate an offline dump of the data before you register a system to Insights, see How can I see what data is collected by Red Hat Insights? -
For more information about the use of the
insights-client --no-uploadcommand to run a test data collection process, see System Information Collected by Red Hat Insights. -
For more information about the use of the
remove.conffile and its options to exclude specific data from collection based on file, command, pattern, and keyword settings, see Opting Out of Sending Metadata from Red Hat Insights Client.
