Chapter 2. Registering the system and managing subscriptions

Prerequisites

• You have an active subscription of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.

Procedure

• Register and subscribe the system:

  Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap

  # subscription-manager register
  Registering to:                      subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
  Username: <example_username>
  Password: <example_password>
  The system has been registered with ID: 37to907c-ece6-49ea-9174-20b87ajk9ee7
  The registered system name is:          client1.example.com

  The command prompts you to enter username and password of Red Hat Customer Portal account.

  If the registration process fails, you can register the system with a specific pool. For details, proceed with the following steps:

  • Determine the pool ID of a subscription:

    Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap

    # subscription-manager list --available --all

    This command displays all available subscriptions for your Red Hat account. For every subscription, various characteristics are displayed, including the pool ID.

  • Attach the appropriate subscription to your system by replacing <example_pool_id> with the pool ID determined in the previous step:

    Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap

    # subscription-manager attach --pool=<example_pool_id>

Verification

• Verify the system under Inventory Systems in the Hybrid Cloud Console.

Prerequisites

• You have an active subscription of the RHEL system.

• You have installed the RHEL 9 web console.
• You have enabled the cockpit service.

• Your user account is allowed to log in to the web console.

  For instructions, see Installing and enabling the web console.

Verification

• Check details of your subscription in the Hybrid Cloud Console.

Prerequisites

• You have created a Red Hat account.
• You are a root user and logged in to the GNOME desktop environment. For details, see Register and subscribe RHEL system to Red Hat Subscription Manager.