Chapter 4. Register Red Hat Update Infrastructure and attach subscriptions

Procedure

1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Red Hat Update Appliance (RHUA), each content delivery server (CDS), and on the HAProxy load balancer if you are using it. See the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Installation Guide for installation details.

Procedure

1. Register the system that you are going to use as the RHUA instance:

   [root@rhua ~]# subscription-manager register --type=rhui --username <admin-example> --password <secret>
   Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
   The system has been registered with ID: <a12b34c5-6d78-9ef1-2345-ghi678jk91l2m>

   Note

   If you are using a system as the RHUA that has already been registered and the RHUA already has an attached subscription, you will see This system is already registered. Use --force to override when you try to register it using # subscription-manager register --type=rhui. If that occurs, you can override the subscription by adding --force to the command line argument.

   Another option in this situation is to unregister the system (# subscription-manager unregister) and register it again (# subscription-manager register --type=rhui).

2. Register each CDS node that will be used unless existing, external, already registered systems are used:

   [root@cds1 ~]# subscription-manager register --type=rhui --username <admin-example> --password <secret>
   Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
   The system has been registered with ID: <a12b34c5-6d78-9ef1-2345-ghi678jk91l2m>

3. Register each HAProxy node that will be used unless existing, external, already registered systems are used:

   [root@haproxy1 ~]# subscription-manager register --type=rhui --username <admin-example> --password <secret>
   Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
   The system has been registered with ID: <a12b34c5-6d78-9ef1-2345-ghi678jk91l2m>

   The new system will be available on the Customer Portal, and the new RHUA instance will not have any subscriptions applied to it.

Procedure

1. Check for available subscriptions to add to the RHUA:

   [root@rhua ~]# subscription-manager list --available
   +-------------------------------------------+
       Available Subscriptions
   +-------------------------------------------+
   Subscription Name:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host for Certified Cloud
                        and Service Providers (via Red Hat Update Infrastructure)
   Provides:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host Beta from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host from RHUI
   SKU:                 RH00731
   Contract:            11312089
   Pool ID:             8a85f9815a6c4c9d015a6c6acb373ed9
   Provides Management: No
   Available:           19
   Suggested:           1
   Service Level:       Premium
   Service Type:        L1-L3
   Subscription Type:   Standard
   Ends:                02/22/2018
   System Type:         Physical
   
   Subscription Name:   Red Hat Update Infrastructure and RHEL Add-Ons for
                        Providers
   Provides:            dotNET on RHEL (for RHEL Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI
                        Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL
                        Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL
                        Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
                        from RHUI
                        dotNET on RHEL Beta (for RHEL Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Hana from RHUI
                        RHEL Software Test Suite (for RHEL Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL
                        Server) from RHUI
                        Red Hat Update Infrastructure
                        Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (for RHEL Server)
                        from RHUI
   SKU:                 RC1116415
   Contract:            11314314
   Pool ID:             8a85f9815a71f0bd015a72445adf0223
   Provides Management: No
   Available:           20
   Suggested:           1
   Service Level:       Premium
   Service Type:        L1-L3
   Subscription Type:   Standard
   Ends:                02/23/2018
   System Type:         Physical

2. Use the pool ID for your subscription to attach the subscription. Because there are two SKUs and two subscription names, you need to run subscription-manager attach --pool=<Pool ID> for each <Pool ID>:

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=<Pool ID>
   Successfully attached a subscription for: <Subscription_Name>
   
   # subscription-manager attach --pool=<Pool ID>
   Successfully attached a subscription for: <Subscription_Name>

Procedure

1. Check for available subscriptions that you can add to the CDS nodes:

   [root@<cds1> ~]# subscription-manager list --available
   +-------------------------------------------+
       Available Subscriptions
   +-------------------------------------------+
   Subscription Name:   <Your_Subscription_Name>

2. Use the pool ID of Red Hat Update Infrastructure and RHEL Add-Ons for Providers subscription. This subscription provides access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Gluster Storage.

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=<Pool_ID>
   Successfully attached a subscription for: Red Hat Update Infrastructure and RHEL Add-Ons for Providers

Procedure

1. Check for available subscriptions that you can add to the HAProxy nodes:

   [root@<haproxy1> ~]# subscription-manager list --available
   +-------------------------------------------+
       Available Subscriptions
   +-------------------------------------------+
   Subscription Name:   <Your_Subscription_Name>

2. Use the pool ID of the Red Hat Update Infrastructure and RHEL Add-Ons for Providers subscription. This subscription provides access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HAProxy.

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=<Pool_ID>
   Successfully attached a subscription for: Red Hat Update Infrastructure and RHEL Add-Ons for Providers

Procedure

1. List the enabled repositories to verify that your system is correctly subscribed:

   # yum repolist enabled
   Loaded plugins: search-disabled-repos
   rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
   
   repo id                                           repo name                                                        status
   !local-rhui3                                      local-rhui3                                                         101
   !rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64        Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7       6
   !rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs)                         13,578
   !rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (RPMs)                  209
   repolist: 13,894

2. Disable all repositories for the RHUA and enable the relevant repository:

   [root@<rhua> ~]# subscription-manager repos --disable=*; subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms

3. Enable the RHUI 3 repository:

   [root@<rhua> ~]# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhui-3-rpms

4. Disable all repositories for the CDS nodes and enable the relevant:

   [root@<cds$> ~]# subscription-manager repos --disable=*; subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms --enable=rh-gluster-3-for-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms

5. Enable the RHUI 3 repository:

   [root@<cds$> ~]# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhui-3-rpms

6. Disable all repositories for the HAProxy nodes and enable the relevant repository:

   [root@<haproxy$> ~]# subscription-manager repos --disable=*; subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms

7. Enable the RHUI 3 repository:

   [root@<haproxy$> ~]# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhui-3-rpms