Chapter 3. How does simple content access change subscription tools and workflows?

Simple content access is designed to improve the overall customer subscription experience by eliminating cumbersome and confusing parts of the subscription management workflow. With simple content access enabled, that action changes not only the user workflows that manage your subscriptions and provide access to content, but it also changes the way that the various subscription tools themselves operate. These tools include Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Subscription Management, the subscription-manager command line tool, activation keys, virt-who, and others.

For the most recent information that describes the differences between the old entitlement-based workflow and the simple content access workflow, see the information about operational changes in the Simple Content Access Red Hat Customer Portal article.