Red Hat Insights Client - Technology Preview

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I want to inform the community about the release of the new Red Hat Insights client, which is currently available as Technology Preview.

insights-client is the replacement for redhat-access-insights and runs automatically as a cron job ... to run it manually, execute insights-client. We find more information here -> Product Documentation for Red Hat Insights | Red Hat Insights 1.0 Release Notes

Repositories :

sudo subscription-manager refresh
(in case the repository is not available)

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-insights-3-rpms
(for the RHEL 7 Server edition - replace 7 with 6 when running a RHEL 6 Server)

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-workstation-insights-3-rpms
(for the RHEL 7 Workstation edition - replace 7 with 6 when running a RHEL 6 Workstation)

Installation :

sudo yum update
sudo yum install insights-client

Usage :

sudo insights-client
sudo insights-client --<option>

Options:
  --help                        show this help message and exit
  --version                     Display version
  --register                    Register system to the Red Hat Insights Service
  --unregister                  Unregister system from the Red Hat Insights Service
  --display-name=DISPLAY_NAME   Display name for this system.  Must be used with --register
  --group=GROUP                 Group to add this system to during registration
  --retry=RETRIES               Number of times to retry uploading. 300 seconds between tries
  --validate                    Validate remove.conf
  --quiet                       Only display error messages to stdout
  --silent                      Display no messages to stdout
  --enable-schedule             Enable automatic scheduling for collection to run
  --disable-schedule            Disable automatic scheduling
  --conf=CONF                   Pass a custom config file
  --to-stdout                   print archive to stdout; sets --quiet and --no-upload
  --offline                     offline mode for OSP use
  --logging-file=LOGGING_FILE   path to log file location
  --net-debug                   Log the HTTP method and URL every time a network call is made.

  Debug options:
    --test-connection           Test connectivity to Red Hat
    --force-reregister          Forcefully reregister this machine to Red Hat. Use only as directed.
    --verbose                   DEBUG output to stdout
    --support                   Create a support logfile for Red Hat Insights
    --status                    Check this machine's registration status with Red Hat Insights
    --no-upload                 Do not upload the archive
    --keep-archive              Do not delete archive after upload  

I have installed and tested it on my RHEL 7 systems - the client is running smoothly without any problems so far, hence I can recommend to use it.

Regards,
Christian

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This is a little confusing, links from Product Documentation lead to Red Hat Access Insights, links to Release Notes lead to v1.0 of Red Hat Insights ... I am sure there is a period of adaptation, but something showing whats different, new, entitlements required, would be useful because the documentation for the Release Notes say:

"A subscription to Red Hat Insights is available today for an added cost via the Red Hat Customer Portal, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat CloudForms, Ansible Tower, as well as the public Red Hat Insights API."

What does that mean?

Hi Bradley,

Yes, confusing ... but my post was meant to be a technical information in first place.
Let's discuss the subscription part on your other post, right as suggested by Jaylin.

Regards,
Christian

Hey Bradley,

I assume this discussion is same with another that requested by you. https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3214501 Please refer to my comments in that discussion and feel free to reply if you still have any question.

Thanks!

Jaylin Zhou Red Hat Insights

Hi Jaylin,

Well, I have a question regarding the subscription model and posted it under your comment on the other discussion.

Regards,
Christian

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