Activate with credentials

Activate your Ansible Automation Platform subscription at first launch using Red Hat service account credentials or a personal login. This retrieves and imports the license, granting access to Red Hat content and entitlement services.

About this task

Note

You are opted in for Automation Analytics by default when you activate the platform on first login. This helps Red Hat improve the product by delivering you a much better user experience. You can opt out after activating Ansible Automation Platform by taking the following steps:

  1. From the navigation panel, select Settings > Automation Execution > System.
  2. Clear the Gather data for Automation Analytics option.
  3. Click Save.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
  2. Select the Service Account tab in the subscription wizard.
  3. Enter your Client ID and Client secret.
  4. Select your subscription from the Subscription list.
    Note

    You can also enter your Satellite username and password in the Satellite tab if your cluster nodes are registered to Satellite through Subscription Manager.
  5. Review the End User License Agreement and select I agree to the End User License Agreement.
  6. Click Finish.

Results

After your subscription has been accepted, subscription details are displayed. A status of Compliant indicates your subscription is in compliance with the number of hosts you have automated within your subscription count. Otherwise, your status shows as Out of Compliance, indicating you have exceeded the number of hosts in your subscription. Other important information displayed include the following:

Hosts automated
Host count automated by the job, which consumes the license count
Hosts imported
Host count considering all inventory sources (does not impact hosts remaining)
Hosts remaining
Total host count minus hosts automated