Red Hat Satellite 6 Feature Overview: Registering Hosts using the Global Registration method

Overview

This registration method provides a means to register hosts to Satellite by generating a curl command on Satellite using the global registration template and running this command on hosts. It also allows to deploy Satellite SSH keys to hosts during registration to Satellite to enable hosts for remote execution jobs. The hosts can also be configured with Red Hat Insights during registration to Satellite.

Example Use Cases

• Migrate a RHEL system from one Red Hat Satellite 6 server to another.
• Migrate a client from RHSM to an on-premise Red Hat Satellite 6 server
• Registering a new RHEL system to Red Hat Satellite 6 server built manually or via some different tool.

Video Walkthrough

How to generate global registration command using hammer CLI in Red Hat Satellite 6

If it's required to generate the command for global registration using hammer_cli, refer to this solution article.

Documented Instructions

Known Issues

Below is the list of Issues/Feature Enhancement Requests planned to be addressed in the coming versions of Satellite 6.

• Running the global registration curl command on the client fails with error"curl: (60) Peer's Certificate issuer is not recognized."
• Host remains in build mode during registration when setup_insights is set to true
• Why Global Registration method requires the access to port 80 to be opened for the Red Hat Satellite server?