第4章 Managing Subscriptions

Red Hat Satellite 6 can import content from the Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN). Satellite 6 requires a Subscription Manifest to find, access, and download content from the corresponding repositories. You must have a Subscription Manifest containing a subscription allocation for each organization on Satellite Server. All subscription information is available in your Red Hat Customer Portal account.

Before you can complete the tasks in this chapter, you must create a Subscription Manifest in the Customer Portal.

To create, manage, and export a Subscription Manifest in the Customer Portal, see Using Manifests in the Using Red Hat Subscription Management guide.

Use this chapter to import a Subscription Manifest and manage the manifest within the Satellite web UI.

Subscription Allocations and Organizations

You can manage more than one organization if you have more than one subscription allocation. Satellite 6 requires a single allocation for each organization configured in Satellite Server. The advantage of this is that each organization maintains separate subscriptions so that you can support multiple organizations, each with their own Red Hat accounts.

Future-Dated subscriptions

You can use future-dated subscriptions in a subscription allocation. When you add future-dated subscriptions to content hosts before the expiry date of the existing subscriptions, you can have uninterrupted access to repositories.

Manually attach the future-dated subscriptions to your content hosts before the current subscriptions expire. Do not rely on the auto-attach method because this method is designed for a different purpose and might not work. For more information, see 「Attaching Subscriptions to Content Hosts」.

4.1. Importing a Subscription Manifest into Satellite Server

Use the following procedure to import a Subscription Manifest into Satellite Server.

Prerequisites

  • You must have a Subscription Manifest file exported from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Using Manifests in the Using Red Hat Subscription Management guide.

Procedure

  1. In the Satellite web UI, ensure the context is set to the organization you want to use.
  2. Navigate to Content > Subscriptions and click Manage Manifest.
  3. In the Manage Manifest window, click Browse.
  4. Navigate to the location that contains the Subscription Manifest file, then click Open. If the Manage Manifest window does not close automatically, click Close to return to the Subscriptions window.

For CLI Users

  1. Copy the Subscription Manifest file from your client to Satellite Server: 

    $ scp ~/manifest_file.zip root@satellite.example.com:~/.

  2. Log in to Satellite Server as the root user and import the Subscription Manifest file: 

    # hammer subscription upload \
--file ~/manifest_file.zip \
--organization "organization_name"

You can now enable repositories and import Red Hat content. For more information, see 5章Importing Red Hat Content.