After installing RHEL6.3 on a server, the next step is to register your server as a new asset in your local inventory (in Satellite for instance) or at https://access.redhat.com
Registering and giving the right subscriptions to your server can be done with subscription-manager command line utility. If you want to do the both steps in one time, just type :
root@localhost:~#subscription-manager register –autosubscribe
If you want to know the registration and subscription state of your server :
root@localhost:~# subscription-manager list
You may have the following output :
+——————————————-+
Installed Product Status
+——————————————-+
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Product ID: 69
Version: 6.3
Arch: x86_64
Status: Not Subscribed
Starts:
Expires:
In the web console, you may have the following message looking at your server’s page :
Status : “System is not properly subscribed”
For the moment, the only workaround found to change this state and make your server properly subscribed is to look at the pool id of one of your subscriptions for an already declared server. (Both servers must be similar in terms of subscriptions).
root@localhost:~#subscription-manager list –available |grep -A3 -w ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server’
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Standard (1-2 sockets) (Up
to 1 guest) with Smart Management
Product Id: RH0184831
Pool Id: 8a85f984356102f801356202921d190b
–
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Standard (1-2 sockets) (Up
to 1 guest) with Smart Management
Product Id: RH0184831RN
Pool Id: 8a85f984356102f80135620294061945
–
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Standard (1-2 sockets) (Up
to 1 guest) with Smart Management
Product Id: RH0184831RN
Pool Id: 8a85f984356102f801356202a51b1952
–
And now, for the server in error, just manually add a subscription to it :
root@localhost:~#subscription-manager subscribe –pool=your_chosen_pool_id
To check after this fresh modification :
root@localhost:~#subscription-manager list
+——————————————-+
Installed Product Status
+——————————————-+
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Product ID: 69
Version: 6.3
Arch: x86_64
Status: Subscribed
Starts: 12/15/11
Expires: 07/27/13
