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Chapter 2. Installing Subscription Asset Manager
Subscription Asset Manager is included as part of a subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Subscription Asset Manager lets you administer subscriptions locally and lets you create a stronger organization structure to define machines, groups, and content streams.
Customize Subscription Asset Manager by using a setup script with simple defaults for all settings, and also lets you do environment-specific customization.
2.1. Prerequisites
The machine on which you install Subscription Asset Manager 1.4 must meet these requirements:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 or higher Server, 64-bit.
- The
rhel-6-server-sam-rpmsrepository must be enabled, and therhel-server-rhscl-6-eus-rpmsrepository must be disabled. - OpenJDK 1.6.
- A minimum of 1.5GB RAM.
- A minimum of 1GB of memory must be swap-enabled.
- The Subscription Asset Manager hostname must be fully resolvable in DNS. Both servers and any client systems must be able to resolve the Subscription Asset Manager hostname for authentication operations and other management tasks.
- Ports 443 and 8088 for HTTPS (secure HTTP) must be open.
- For enhanced reporting. An additional 4 GB disk space.
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