what else can we use for offline system.

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Hi,

We heavily rely on Subscription Asset Management as out subscription management, and RHEL Repos Proxy. Actually this is the only point where my servers relay on and touch the Internet resources.

As I can see new, heavily equipped servers are no longer easy to add (as the database filedls are limited to 255 characters). And there are no plans for updates (even when the Subscritions is active).

We now are planning to migrate our infrastructure to RHEL 7.
Is there any solution for subscription management offline systems?

Best regards,
Krzysztof Mazurek

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Hello

You can use a Red Hat Satellite to manage subscriptions and provision systems. If you also need an airgap environment, you can use two Red Hat Satellites, one connected to the Red Hat CDN and an isolated one connected to your hosts. See the Red Hat Satellite 6.3 Architecture Guide for more information.

Is that also available as a free froduct for RHEL Shubscriptions ?

You can use a combination of subscription-manager and createrepo to build a repo and ship it using your preferred method.

I have used this in an airgapped environment to bring patches in as it looks like Red Hat have abandoned the Errata ISO downloads that existed for the older Satellite 5 configuration (unless this has been re-instated?) One method is to build a large ISO of the errata using your external system, and mount it to internal virtual machines using virtual CDROM or mount through loopback.

This method is free, but probably unsupported by Red Hat.

Hi,

Red Hat Satellite is not for free. See the product page for further information: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-satellite

Red Hat told me they are going to (or most likely going to) "give away" Red Hat satellite at some point, and then charge for the clients you hang off of it. Of course, that will make the disconnected satellite servers go perhaps on the honor system. We shall see how the chips will fall. Oh, I have no idea when (or if) they will make that change. Our Red Hat sales guy told us this in the last 30 days or so.

Regards,

RJ

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