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For registering the system to the new Update Services for SAP Solutions, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription is required. Contact Red Hat Sales if your Red Hat account does not list Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions.

Refer to the following article for more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription

Note

• Update Services for SAP Solutions is only provided with RHEL for SAP Solutions and for customers running either SAP HANA or SAP Applications. It is not available on any other RHEL products, or for customers not running SAP workloads.
• Update Services for SAP Solutions is not available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Follow these steps if the SAP NetWeaver System was already registered using the older RHEL for SAP subscription:

1. Find the serial number of the subscription that the system is currently subscribed to

   subscription-manager list --consumed
   

2. Remove the subscription assigned to the system using the below command. Replace the "serial" with the value obtained from Step 1.

   subscription-manager remove --serial=<SERIAL>
   

3. Attach the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription. This process involves two steps

   3.1 Find the pool id of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions

   subscription-manager list --available
   

   3.2 Attach the subscription to the system

   subscription-manager attach --pool=XXXX
   

After attaching the subscription, follow steps mentioned under the heading Subscribing the system to the new Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Follow the below steps if the SAP NetWeaver System is being registered for the first time:

Attach the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription. This process involves two steps

• Find the pool id of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription

  subscription-manager list --available
  

• Attach the subscription to the system

  subscription-manager attach --pool=XXXX
  

Subscribing the system to the new Update Services for SAP Solutions

When registering the system, all the default yum repositories associated with a subscription are enabled. Disable all the enabled yum repositories and enable only the required E4S repositories . The same steps can be followed for a server which is registered to Red Hat Customer portal or to Satellite using Red Hat Subscription management.

Disable all yum repositories that were enabled by default

subscription-manager repos --disable="*"

Enable the E4S yum repositories

subscription-manager repos --enable="rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms" --enable="rhel-sap-for-rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms" 

If the system is also required to be subscribed to High availability repository, then execute the below command

subscription-manager repos --enable="rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms" 

Set the release to one of the supported RHEL 7 minor versions and clear the yum cache. For setting the minor release as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

subscription-manager release --set=7.2
yum clean all