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- In this video, we'll review the basics
of subscription management in Satellite.
Most enterprises know that they have to keep track
of all their software and hardware assets.
Satellite collects a large number of facts about systems,
such as server hardware information,
the date brought online,
giving users one place to look for inventory,
and utilization information.
In the demo, we'll show how to create
a manifest from your subscriptions on the Customer Portal,
then import that subscription into Satellite.
For the purposes of this video, I've got
a couple different environments that I'm going to be using.
I'll point it out as I switch between them.
We're going to start in the Customer Portal.
This should look very similar
to what you have in your environment.
I'm currently logged on to access.redhat.com
as my Satellite account.
If I scroll down the page,
I'm going to start in My Subscriptions
and I can see here the subscription
information that I have available.
What I have may look very different from what you have.
I'll click on "Subscriptions",
so you can see that I have a number
of different kinds of software,
as well as my quantity, my entitlement usage,
and my renewal date.
To take these subscriptions and get them into Satellite,
I need to create a manifest.
I'll do that by creating a subscription allocation.
I have a few that are already available,
but I'm gonna create a new subscription allocation.
I'll call it RH053,
and I'll select the version of Satellite
that I'm using and click Create.
For this subscription allocation,
I'll click on the Subscriptions button
and Add Subscriptions.
This will show me my subscription name,
as well as the start date, the end date,
and how many entitlements I have available.
I'm gonna add quantity 10
of my Linux Server Standard, physical or virtual nodes,
as well as quantity 10
of Linux Server Premium, physical or virtual,
as well as two Satellites and two Capsules,
and 10 of Smart Management.
Click Submit.
Now my RH053 subscription allocation
now has some associated subscriptions.
I can export that manifest.
That's downloaded as ZIP file here to my local host
and I'll need to take that into my Satellite environment.
My first Satellite environment that I have,
this is a really early build, it has no hosts in it.
It has no subscription information,
so I'll go to "Content", "Subscriptions",
and I'm gonna click the Manage Manifest button.
No manifest has been uploaded,
so I'll choose the RH053 file,
click Open,
and that will start the process of importing
that manifest into Satellite.
Now that my manifest has been imported,
I can see those same subscriptions
inside of my Satellite environment.
So as I begin adding hosts to this environment,
the consumption number will change
as hosts consume subscriptions,
so you can keep an eye on how many hosts
are consuming your subscriptions,
compared to how many entitlements you have.
Let's say we add another piece of software.
You can click the Add Subscriptions button.
This is going to reach back out to the Portal.
Rather than going through the steps
and recreating that manifest,
we can simply add another software product
to the existing manifest.
So if I wanted to add Red Hat Virtualization
and five licenses,
select it in quantity of entitlements and hit Submit.
Now my list of subscriptions contains
the new Red Hat Virtualization entitlement
that I just added.
Let's take a look at the other environment
that we used in the previous video.
If you recall, in the previous video,
we added a custom product, EPEL, into Satellite.
If I go to "Content" and then "Subscriptions",
so if you recall in that video,
we added the EPEL product.
Notice that it also added a subscription
for EPEL with unlimited entitlements,
so as we leverage EPEL in our host,
it will start to consume those entitlements.
I'll go to "Hosts", then "Content Hosts",
and I'm going to select the host
that I want to apply that EPEL subscription to,
in this case, all five of these hosts.
And under Select Action, I can click Manage Subscriptions,
then I will select the EPEL row, and click Add Selected,
so this will bulk add the subscriptions
to these hosts without having to individually go
and add subscriptions.
This is a way that subscription management
can be leveraged, even for non-Red Hat software.
Returning to "Content", "Subscriptions",
we should now see that the EPEL product
is consuming five out of unlimited entitlements.
So even if it's not Red Hat software,
subscription management and Satellite can help you manage
consumption of other products.
In this video,
we took a quick look at subscription management,
we went out to the Customer Portal,
created a brand new subscription,
and exported that as a manifest.
We then imported that manifest into Satellite,
which has our list of subscriptions
that we can consume with our content hosts.
We also looked at how a custom product
can count entitlement usage as well.
That completes this video.
See you in the next one.