Red Hat Insights Client - Technology Preview
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-clientsudo 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
Responses
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?
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