Manage your Red Hat subscriptions and systems
Subscription and system management
There are various subscription and system management services included in a Red Hat subscription. These services, located on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, can help you manage the account-level subscriptions in your inventory, show you a historical look at your subscription usage, track remaining subscription capacity, and in some instances, help you understand costs and optimize resources.
The Red Hat managed services that provide these functions are:
Red Hat subscription management
Select functions for subscription management that were previously on the Red Hat Customer Portal are now available in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. These functions include subscription inventory, activation keys, and manifests for a connected Red Hat Satellite Server.
The subscriptions service
A subscription reporting service in the Hybrid Cloud Console that provides a visual representation of the subscription usage across the constituent parts of your hybrid infrastructure, including physical and virtual technology deployments; on-premise and cloud environments; and cluster, instance, and workload use cases for select Red Hat product portfolios.
Red Hat Lightspeed
Red Hat Lightspeed, formerly known as Red Hat Insights, is an end-to-end system management tool that predicts risks across Red Hat platforms, recommends actions, and tracks costs. Red Hat Lightspeed uses AI-powered package recommendations and planning capabilities to provide targeted guidance on increasing your systems’ day-to-day efficiency.
Red Hat Satellite (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers; requires additional subscription)
A systems management solution to deploy, scale, and manage Red Hat infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Explore these services on Hybrid Cloud Console
Red Hat Lightspeed
Red Hat Lightspeed is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application included with almost every subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift Container Platform, and Ansible Automation Platform.
Red Hat Lightspeed can discover relevant insights, recommend tailored, proactive, next actions, and automate tasks. Using Red Hat Lightspeed, customers benefit from the experience and technical knowledge of Red Hat Certified Engineers, to identify, prioritize and resolve issues for business operations.
Red Hat Lightspeed implements security measures to protect data and applications throughout the collection and analysis process. Red Hat Lightspeed collects minimal system metadata, called system facts, from your systems to identify and resolve issues.
The process of connecting to Red Hat Lightspeed varies by product. Please refer to the documentation to learn more.
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Security
Red Hat has a dedicated Product Security team that continuously analyzes threats and vulnerabilities against all of our products. That team provides relevant guidance and updates through the Red Hat Customer Portal product security center and through other notification methods.
From the product security center, you can view:
- The latest CVEs and their severity rating
- Information about the Red Hat Secure Development Life Cycle
- Background on the Incident Response team and plan + the Compliance and Risk group
- Contact details for reporting suspected security vulnerabilities to Red Hat
- Top links to other security resources like the Red Hat security blog, An Open Approach to Vulnerability Management, and a security glossary
Our goal is to provide a resilient, security-focused foundation and trusted technologies so that you can turn your focus to building, managing, and controlling hybrid environments, implementing an automation strategy, and developing robust applications with DevSecOps practices. Bookmark the product security center so you can easily access the security resources you need to confidently deploy your solutions.
