How to register and subscribe a system to the Red Hat Customer Portal using Red Hat Subscription-Manager
Overview Red Hat Subscription Manager is a local service that tracks installed products and subscriptions on a local system to help manage subscription assignments. It communicates with the backend subscription service (the Customer Portal or an on-premise server such as Subscription Asset Manager) and works with content management tools such as yum. Red Hat Subscription and Registration Process A properly registered and attached product is eligible for support and errata updates. To be properly registered, the system needs to both be attached to your account and then attached to a subscription. Attaching your system to a subscription consumes one or more entitlements from a valid subscription depending on the type of system that it is. Red Hat Customer Portal With Red Hat products, you can manage your subscriptions with different applications depending on your organization’s needs. Red Hat Subscription Manager is an on-premise application that sends information back to the Red Hat Cus