Register With Rhsm Via Cli

Register with RedHat Subscription Manager via Command Line

This is a simple thing that you don’t do very often. So it always trips me up. Short and sweet, here we go.

Register system

Using the subscription-manager command, register the new system.

#>subscription-manager register --user <username> --password <password>

Gotcha here is that it wanted the actual username, not my email which I though was my username as I use it to authenticate to the Redhat Partner portal.

Once you are registered you can query which subscriptions you have access to.

#>subscription-manager list --available

This will output the various Subscriptions. Once you find the subscription you want to utilize, find the ‘Pool ID’

SKU:                 RH3387200
Contract:            12949065
Pool ID:             8a82c58b7fc28cd5017fe701d51a35b1
Provides Management: No
Available:           2
Suggested:           1

Next, attach to that subscription pool.

subscription-manager attach --pool=8a82c58b7fc28cd5017fe701d51a35b1
Successfully attached a subscription for: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Self-Support (128 Sockets, NFR, Partner Only)

Finally you can run yum update to check for updates.