7.2. Subscribing to the Required Entitlements

Procedure 7.1. Subscribing to Required Entitlements using Subscription Manager

1. Register your system with the Content Delivery Network, entering your Customer Portal Username and Password when prompted:

   # subscription-manager register

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2. Find the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and Red Hat Virtualization subscription pools and note down the pool IDs.

   # subscription-manager list --available

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3. Use the pool IDs located in the previous step to attach the entitlements to the system:

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=poolid

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   Note

   To find out what subscriptions are currently attached, run:

   # subscription-manager list --consumed

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   To list all enabled repositories, run:

   # yum repolist

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4. Disable all existing repositories:

   # subscription-manager repos --disable=*

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5. Enable the required repositories:

   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms
   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhv-4-mgmt-agent-rpms

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   If you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts, little endian on IBM POWER8 hardware, enable the following repositories instead:

   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhv-4-mgmt-agent-for-power-le-rpms # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-le-rpms

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6. Ensure that all packages currently installed are up to date:

   # yum update

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   Note

   Reboot the machine if any kernel related packages have been updated.