Overview
This page contains a number of documents that you'd find useful when configuring many of the subscription components in Satellite 6.
Required Reading.
As a user, your first stop should be the Virtual Instances Guide for Satellite 6. This document covers the setup and configuration of virt-who and various other subscription management tools.
Virtual Instance Guides (by version)
| Document |
Link |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.2 Virtual Instance Guide |
Link |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.3 Virtual Instance Guide |
Link |
Need help Configuring virt-who?
Try our Red Hat Access Lab application, which helps with creating a configuration for virt-who.
Videos
| Document |
Link |
Topics |
| Subscription Utilization Overview: |
Link |
Where are my subscriptions being utilized at |
| Creating a Satellite 6 Manifest |
Link |
How to create a subscription manifest? |
Suggested Additional Reading
Listed below is a selection of subscription management articles designed to help you understand, configure and troubleshoot Red Hat's subscription tooling.
Installation & Configuration
| Document |
Link |
Topics |
| Activation Key Enhancements with Red Hat Satellite 6.1 |
Link |
Best Practices for using activation keys. |
| How to install virt-who from local media |
Link |
Installation of virt-who from local media, when a system is disconnected or cannot access the Customer Portal. |
| How to configure virt-who for a KVM host ? |
Link |
Configuring virt-who for standalone KVM hosts |
| Configuration of virt-who to support Red Hat Virtualization ? |
Link |
Configuring virt-who for Red Hat Virtualization |
| How to configure virt-who for unsupported hypervisors with type fake? |
Link |
Configuring virt-who for unsupported hypervisors or troubleshooting. |
| Configuring virt-who to support a different proxy from Satellite |
Link |
Configuring virt-who to support a different proxy from Satellite |
Architecture
| Document |
Link |
Topics |
| Usage of Red Hat Unlimited Guest & VDC subscriptions in virtualized Clusters. |
Link |
Understanding how Unlimited Guest subscriptions work in virtualized clusters. |
| Virt-Who Processes, Queries, and Data |
Link |
Understanding what data does virt-who collect. |
Advanced Topics
| Document |
Link |
Topics |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 1 |
Link |
General Subscription-manager usage |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 2 - Subscription-manager learns grep |
Link |
Advanced subscription-manager usage |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 3 - Understanding virt-who |
Link |
introduction to virt-who |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 4 - Understanding Subscription Manifests |
Link |
How to work with subscription manifests |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 5 - working with subscriptions that require virt-who |
Link |
Best practices for configuring systems to use subscriptions which require virt-who. |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 6 - understanding and improving the renewal experience |
Link |
Tooling to work with subscriptions on large groups of systems |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 7 - understanding the Red Hat Content Delivery Network |
Link |
Mirroring the CDN for disconnected usage |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 8 - product certificates |
Link |
Product certificates and how they affect subscription tooling. |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 9 - A Case Study with activation keys. |
Link |
Activation key use cases |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 10 - Instance Based Subscriptions |
Link |
Understanding Instance-based (a.k.a 'either/or') subscriptions. |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 11 - Identity Certificates |
Link |
Identity certificates and how they affect subscription tooling |
| Subscription-manager for the former Red Hat Network User: Part 12 - Subscription Reporting Tools |
Link |
Subscription reporting for Satellite 6 and Red Hat Subscription Management. |