Red Hat Subscription Manager

Concepts

Pool

The Pool ID is reported by subscription-manager list command.

Commands

list

List subscription and product information for this system.

By default, the list shows all products that are already installed. This is equivalent with using "--installed":

subscription-manager list

+-------------------------------------------+
    Installed Product Status
+-------------------------------------------+
Product Name:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Product ID:     69
Version:        7.3
Arch:           x86_64
Status:         Subscribed
Status Details:
Starts:         12/26/2016
Ends:           12/26/2017

--available

subscription-manager list --available [--all]

status

Show status of this system's subscriptions.

# subscription-manager status
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Current

identity

Display the identity of this system, as registered with the subscription management infrastructure.

# subscription-manager identity
system identity: e8cae509-6c99-4c8b-9d7e-0e6578e79409
name: master1.openshift35.local
org name: ...
org ID: ...

register

Register this system to the Customer Portal or another subscription management service.

refresh

Pull the latest subscription data from the server.

subscription-manager refresh

attach

Attach a specified subscription to the registered system. The attachment can be done automatically, by attaching all compatible subscriptions, or by specifying a pool and the quantity.

subscription-manager attach --auto

subscription-manager attach --pool

Register a Linux System

The first step consists in the registration of the system with the credentials linked to subscription.

# subscription-manager register
Username: <your-subscription-user>
Password: 
The system has been registered with ID: 8ccbea2c-8b26-4049-b2f5-ed5487ea9cb1 

subscription-manager refresh

subscription-manager attach --auto