Satellite 6 Subscription Management Home Page
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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. |
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