9.4. Managing Entitlements

One important task after creating a new organization is to assign management entitlements to the new organization. Management system entitlements are a base requirement for an organization to function on the Satellite. The number of management entitlements allocated to an organization is equivalent to the maximum number of systems that may register to that organization on the Satellite, regardless of the number of software entitlements available. For example, if there are 100 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client entitlements but only 50 management system entitlements to an organization, only 50 systems are able to register to that organization.

You must also grant RHN Tools software channel entitlements to each organization. The RHN Tools channel contains various client software required for extended Satellite functionality, such as clients necessary for configuration management and kickstart support as well as the rhn-virtualization package, which is necessary for the entitlements of Xen virtual guests to be counted correctly corresponding to the number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to which they are associated.

Access the Subscriptions tab by clicking Admin ⇒ Organizations ⇒ Details ⇒ Subscriptions.

The Subscriptions tab has two subtabs for managing the software channel and system entitlements for the organization.