Part III. Setting up subscription watch and simple content access

To set up the environment for simple content access, you activate simple content access, use Red Hat Satellite to change your content access mode, and complete other setup tasks. To set up the environment for subscription watch, you connect your Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift systems to the Cloud Services platform services through one or more data collection tools.

After you complete the steps to set up these environments, you can continue with the steps to activate and open subscription watch.

Do these steps

  1. Remove traditional system-level enforcement and activate simple content access:

  2. To gather Red Hat Enterprise Linux usage data, complete at least one of the following three steps to connect your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to the Cloud Services platform by enabling a data collection tool. This connection enables subscription usage data to show in subscription watch.

    1. Deploy Insights on every RHEL system that is managed by Red Hat Satellite:

    2. Ensure that Satellite is configured to manage your RHEL systems and install the Satellite inventory upload plugin:

    3. Ensure that Red Hat Subscription Management is configured to manage your RHEL systems:

  3. To gather Red Hat OpenShift usage data, complete the following step for Red Hat OpenShift data collection on the Cloud Services platform.

    1. Set up the connection between Red Hat OpenShift and subscription watch based upon the operating system that is used for clusters: