Chapter 13. Determining whether manual activation of the subscriptions service is necessary
The subscriptions service must be activated to begin tracking usage for the Red Hat account for your organization. The activation process can be automatic or manual.
Procedure
Review the following tasks that activate the subscriptions service automatically. If someone in your organization has completed one or more of these tasks, manual activation of the subscriptions service is not needed.
- Purchasing a pay-as-you-go On-Demand subscription for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated through Red Hat Marketplace. As the pay-as-you-go clusters begin reporting usage through OpenShift Cluster Manager and the monitoring stack, the subscriptions service activates automatically for the organization.
- Purchasing a Red Hat Cloud Services pay-as-you-go On-Demand subscription through a cloud provider marketplace, such as Red Hat Marketplace or Amazon Web Services (AWS). Examples of these types of products include Red Hat OpenShift AI or Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. As these products begin reporting usage through the monitoring stack, the subscriptions service activates automatically for the organization.
- Creating an Amazon Web Services integration through the integrations service in the Hybrid Cloud Console with the RHEL management bundle selected. The process of creating the integration also activates the subscriptions service.
Creating a Microsoft Azure integration through the integrations service in the Hybrid Cloud Console with the RHEL management bundle selected. The process of creating the integration also activates the subscriptions service.
NoteThe integrations service was formerly known as the sources service in the Hybrid Cloud Console.
These tasks, especially purchasing tasks, are frequently performed by a user that has the Organization Administrator (org admin) role in the Red Hat organization. The integration creation tasks must be performed by a user with the Sources administrator role in the role-based access control (RBAC) system for the Hybrid Cloud Console.
