How to disable insights on a RHEL system
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Issue
Insights-client is not needed on RHEL by a user who may want to remove the package and the ability to register with Insights.
Resolution
Use the command below to determine if insights-client is installed on the system:
# rpm -qa insights-client
if no output is returned, the package is not installed. Please do not install this package if you do not wish to use Red Hat Insights.
If this package is installed, you can remove the package using the command below:
# yum remove insights-client
NOTE: Removing insights-client will affect the usage of the command rhc
Root Cause
insights-client is pre-installed as part of the @Corepackage group and is not necessarily needed in all environments.
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