Chapter 6. Connecting your systems to Red Hat Insights

If you are not a Satellite user then you need to either directly communicate to Red Hat Insights or set up a web proxy.

Insights proxy provides capabilities and features for securely and efficiently connecting your systems to Red Hat Insights.

To make it simpler and easier for you, Red Hat Insights provides a proxy, which is included with your RHEL subscription. Insights proxy routes all Red Hat traffic through the proxy with a config script hosted on the proxy server that you use to configure each host system.

For detailed information about how to install and configure Red Hat Insights proxy, see Connecting to Red Hat Insights through Insights proxy.

You might choose to use a web proxy of your choice to act as a gateway between the public Internet and your private network, and configure a web config file on each host. This is a good security measure to protect your systems from malicious activity.

To connect your systems to Insights you must add hostnames, ports, and allow additional URLs. For guidance about how to connect to Insights by using your own proxy, see Connecting to Red Hat Insights through your own proxy.