Chapter 4. Requirements
To begin using the subscriptions service, you must meet the following software requirements. For more complete information about these requirements, contact your Red Hat account team.
4.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
You must meet at least one of the following requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux management:
RHEL managed by Satellite
- The minimum Satellite version is 6.9 or later (versions that are under full or maintenance support are recommended).
- RHEL managed by Red Hat Insights
- RHEL managed by Red Hat Subscription Management
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Third Party Linux Migration with Extended Life Cycle Support Add-on with a pay-as-you-go On-Demand subscription with metered billing configured
- This subscription requires the configuration of metered billing for the relevant cloud instances. You can choose to meter with the host-metering agent or with the cost management service in the Hybrid Cloud Console. For the most recent information about how to configure metered billing using either of these methods, see Enabling metering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Extended Lifecycle Support in your cloud environment.
4.2. Red Hat OpenShift
You must meet the following requirements for Red Hat OpenShift management, based on your product version and subscription type:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with an Annual subscription
- RHOCP version 4.1 or later managed with the monitoring stack tools and OpenShift Cluster Manager
- RHOCP version 3.11 with RHEL nodes managed by Insights, Satellite, or Red Hat Subscription Management
RHOCP with a pay-as-you-go On-Demand subscription
- RHOCP version 4.7 or later managed with the monitoring stack tools and OpenShift Cluster Manager
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated with a pay-as-you-go On-Demand subscription
- OpenShift Dedicated version 4.7 or later. The monitoring stack tools and OpenShift Cluster Manager are always in use for OpenShift Dedicated
Other managed services managed with the Red Hat OpenShift monitoring stack tools in combination with other Red Hat infrastructure
These managed services include offerings such as Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. Generally for the Red Hat OpenShift managed services, no user setup of the monitoring stack tools or cloud integration (as applicable) is necessary.
NoteSome of the managed services in the Red Hat OpenShift portfolio might also gather and display their own usage data. This data is independent of the data that is gathered by the Red Hat OpenShift monitoring stack tools to display in the subscriptions service. The data displayed in these service-level dashboards is designed more for the needs of the owners of individual clusters, instances, and so on. However, the Red Hat OpenShift platform core capabilities provided by the monitoring stack tools typically gather and process the data that is used in the subscriptions service.
4.3. Red Hat Ansible
You must meet the following requirements for Red Hat Ansible management:
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as a managed service
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with a provisioned Ansible control plane during product configuration. No additional setup is necessary.
