Benefits of Red Hat Subscription Management
RHSM offers solutions to help achieve:
- Lower costs and streamline procurement though efficient use of available tools and processes that support the software the customer has in use.
- Effectively manage subscriptions by clarifying the relationships between subscriptions and systems.
- Simplify IT inventory and reporting. Help maintain regulatory compliance by tracking software attached subscriptions and expiration periods.
The Value of a Red Hat Subscription
In the traditional model of software purchase and delivery, users are locked into punitive, perpetual licenses where upgrades are costly, access to help is limited, and if customers want the latest technology they have to wait until the next release. Red Hat pioneered the model that uniquely provides customers tested and quality controlled features, updates, and upgrades in a low-cost, high-value subscription.
Red Hat Subscriptions deliver:
- The latest enterprise software, including security, bug fixes, and enhancements for any supported version.
- Maximize return on investment by incorporating new features without compromising the stability of APIs and ABIs.
- Provide up to 10 years of support and maintenance for any release.
- Enable supported solutions as a direct result of Red Hat's vendor relationships, leading to certifications for hardware and software.
- The ability to influence technology and industry innovation through Red Hat's unique open source community contributions and partner ecosystem.
- Entitle in the Red Hat Open Source Assurance program, which helps safeguard customers developing and deploying open source solutions from legal harm.
Red Hat Subscription Management establishes the relationship between the product subscriptions available through purchase and the systems (typically servers) to which those subscriptions are attached. It provides the means to manage systems in connection with subscriptions; an individual system can receive subscription value (such as software packages, updates, and patches) after being registered through a Subscription Management solution from Red Hat.
- Management of Subscriptions
Red Hat Subscription Management Services provides a 24x7 web interface that allows customers to self-manage the purchase or renewal of subscriptions and organize their enterprise to manage subscriptions locally and independently if desired.
- Management of Entitlements
Red Hat Subscription Management Services provides hosted and on-premise interfaces that allows customers to self-manage the attachment, removal, and reuse of entitlements to specific system.
- Management of Content
Red Hat Subscription Management Services provides for the delivery and notification of content, updates, and errata that allows customers to stay on current versions, be proactive in updates, manage security risks, manage content and releases, and reduce risk of delays in access to new and updated content.
- Management of Reconciliation
Red Hat Subscription Management Services provides for the display of accurate inventory and utilization information to: support planning and budgeting, being proactive to reduce risks of audit exposure, and having a single point of reference for audit-readiness and reconciliation.