Chapter 6. Enabling simple content access with Red Hat Subscription Management

If you use a Red Hat Satellite Server, then you can enable simple content access in the following ways:

  • On a subscription manifest on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console Manifests page.
  • On a Satellite organization using the Satellite graphical user interface.
Note

The simple content access setting on the Satellite organization supersedes the settings on the manifest.

If you do not use a Satellite Server, then you can enable simple content access through the Red Hat Customer Portal.

After simple content access is enabled, you can complete additional post-enablement steps related to activation key, host group, and host configuration through the Hybrid Cloud Console.

6.1. Enabling simple content access without a Red Hat Satellite Server

When you enable simple content access, you change the content access mode. You stop using the traditional mode, where you must attach a subscription to a system as a prerequisite of gaining access to content. You start using a new mode, where you can consume content regardless of the presence of an attached subscription.

Prerequisites

  • The Organization administrator role for the organization

Procedure

To enable simple content access for the directly connected systems in Red Hat Subscription Management without a Satellite Server, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  2. On the Overview page, set the Simple content access for Red Hat switch to Enabled.

After you complete these steps, simple content access is enabled for all current and newly registered systems. Current systems will download the required simple content access certification information the next time that they check in to the subscription management services.

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