Chapter 1. Insights client overview
The Insights client (insights-client) is the client for Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Run insights-client from the command line.
1.1. Red Hat Insights client distribution
Insights client is available for the following releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
| RHEL release | Comments |
|---|---|
| RHEL 9 | Distributed with Insights client pre-installed. |
| RHEL 8 | Distributed with Insights client pre-installed, unless RHEL 8 was installed as a minimal installation. |
| RHEL 7 | Distributed with the Insights client RPM package loaded but not installed. |
| RHEL 6.10 and later | You must download the Insights client RPM package and install it. |
Insights client installation on older versions
RHEL versions 6 and 7 do not come with the Insights client pre-installed. If you have one of these versions, run the following commands in your terminal:
[root@server ~]# yum install insights-client
Then, register the system to Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
[root@server ~]# insights-client --register
Additional resources
