6. Managing On-Premise Subscription Management Applications

A subscription management application organization is a special type of entity in Customer Portal Subscription Management — it is an on-premise entity that manages local systems. Customer Portal Subscription Management registers the subscription management application organization and attaches large blocs of subscriptions to it. The application organization itself then manages inventory, subscriptions, and systems locally.
Customer Portal Subscription Management transfers subscriptions from the company's global Red Hat account to the local application. The subscription management application organization entry is the method Customer Portal Subscription Management uses to transfer those subscriptions.
A subscription management application organization entry in Customer Portal Subscription Management has direct parity with an organization entry in the on-premise application. The organization structure can be flat, with a single local organization. Alternatively, it can be multi-tenant, with multiple organizations managed by the same application but independent from each other. Multi-tenancy within the on-premise application allows multiple, independent groups to be attached and to manage their own subscriptions and systems through local services. (The organization structure in the on-premise application is transparent to Customer Portal Subscription Management. Customer Portal Subscription Management works with each subscription management application organization entry separately.)
The subscriptions attached to the application organization are the entirety of the subscriptions and products available to the systems within that organization. The subscriptions, products, and quantities are listed in the subscription management application organization's manifest.
Local organizations and environments can be managed through a variety of different subscription management applications, such as Subscription Asset Manager and Satellite 6..

6.1. Registering Application Organizations

  1. Expand the Subscriptions tab, open the Your Subscriptions area, and select the Overview item.
  2. In the Usage area on the right, click the Subscription Management link.
  3. In the Subscription Management Applications column, click the Register link.
  4. Fill in the required information for the new organization:
    • The name for the organization
    • The type of the organization; the options are supplied based on the available subscirpionts for the account
    • The version of the Subscription Asset Manager instance; the options are based on the available subscriptions for the account

    Note

    This name should correspond to the organization name in the on-premise application.
  5. Click the Register button.
After the subscription management application organization is created, attach subscriptions to it, and download and install the manifest so that the organization can begin attaching subscriptions to its client systems.