Satellite Infrastructure Subscriptions MCT3718 MCT3719

Environment

Satellite 5.
Satellite 6.

Issue

As part of the FY2019 Pricing and Packaging changes for Satellite and Smart Management customers who have purchased into the new model will receive new subscriptions allowing them to deploy Satellite infrastructure more liberally. This document aims to answer questions related to the technical mechanics of how these subscriptions work.

Resolution

Q: What is the purpose of the MCT3718 and MCT3719 subscriptions?
A: To provide customers an easy means to deploy Satellite infrastructure as part of the FY2019 P&P model, we needed to create two new subscriptions:

MCT3718  - Satellite Infrastructure Subscription
MCT3719  - Satellite Infrastructure Subscription Beta

These subscription are intended to allow a customer to deploy a Satellite Server (or Satellite Capsule Server). If you are familiar with the legacy subscriptions, MCT3718 is effectively MCT0370 (Red Hat Satellite), and MCT0369 (Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server) combined into a singular SKU. MCT3719 is the equivalent subscription, but is only issued during the Satellite High Touch and Public Betas.

Q: How does a customer get access to them?
A: As part of a qualifying purchase of a subscription that includes Smart Management (now Red Hat Satellite, after being renamed as such on first of April 2023), a customer is granted access to a quantity of 50 MCT3718 subscriptions.

Example Subscriptions which include Smart Management:

RH00008 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Management, Premium (Physical or Virtual Nodes)
MCT2844 - Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Premium (2 sockets)

Q: Why quantity 50?
A: Quantity 50 is reasonably large enough that customers can deploy the Infrastructure without being blocked by entitlements, large enough to cover > 99% of Satellite customers today.

Q: What is the start date of the Infrastructure Subscription?
A: The start date of the Infrastructure Subscription matches the start date of the first subscription purchased that includes Smart Management (now Red Hat Satellite).

Q: What is the end date of the Infrastructure Subscription?
A: The end date of the Infrastructure Subscription ALWAYS matches the end date of the future most subscription which includes Smart Management (now Red Hat Satellite).
Example:

Customer purchases a RH00008 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Management, Premium (Physical or Virtual Nodes) subscription with a start date of 05-Mar-2018 and end date of 04-Mar-2019.
Customer is provided QTY 50 of MCT3718 - Satellite Infrastructure subscription, with matching start/end dates (start: 05-Mar-2018; end: 04-Mar-2019)
Later that month, the customer purchases a different qualifying subscription with a differing start/end date. In this case, a 3 year subscription, such as MCT2844 - Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Premium (2 sockets), with a start date of 19-Mar-2018, and an end date of 18-Mar-2021.
The QTY 50 of MCT3718 is updated with an new end date, matching the end date of the future most subscription. (18-Mar-2021)

**Q:**Do the Infrastructure Subscriptions include RHEL for the Satellite or Satellite Capsule Server?
**A:**Yes, the Infrastructure Subscriptions (MCT3718 & MCT3719) include RHEL for the Satellite or Satellite Capsule Server. Again, the spirit of the new pricing and packaging is to make the infrastructure easy to acquire. We did not want a model where we gave the customer a block of Satellite/Capsule components, but not the accompanied RHEL. This would make the process of getting the correct subscriptions more complicated. (As the user would get Satellite & Capsule bits, but have to purchase RHEL separately)

Q: What if I have a customer who requires > 50 Infrastructure subscriptions?
A: Please open a support case or contact Sales

Q: Do the MCT3718 and MCT3719 allow the creation of a Satellite 5 certificate and/or a Satellite 6 manifest?
A: Yes. These subscriptions have the ENABLED_CONSUMER_TYPE attribute set to Satellite allowing the creation of Satellite certificates & Manifests.

Q: Can I use the MCT3718 or MCT3719 subscription to install a Satellite Proxy or Satellite Capsule?
A: Yes.

Q. How do I get premium support for my Satellite and Capsule servers?
A. With the purchase or renewal of Smart Management (now Red Hat Satellite) either as a stand-alone subscription or bundled with other Red Hat products after March 1, 2018, you get access to the Satellite Infrastructure Subscription which comes with Premium support.

Q. What is a 'qualifying purchase of a subscription that includes Smart Management' ?
A. Please contact Red Hat (Account Manager, Customer Service or Support) to validate if the subscription you purchased/plan to purchase qualifies for 50 qty - MCT3718/MCT3719 - Satellite Infrastructure Subscription

Q. Can this subscription be used for a non Satellite/Capsule RHEL system (content host) ?
A. This subscription is only intended to cover a Satellite/Capsule system not a regular RHEL system that is consuming content from a Satellite/Capsule

Root Cause

As of 1 Mar 2018, Red Hat has moved to a new packaging of Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Satellite Capsules. You have received these subscriptions as part of a qualifying purchase of a subscription which includes Smart Management (now Red Hat Satellite). For details as to how this change impacts your company, your purchases, and your renewal specifically, please reach out to your Red Hat Sales Rep.

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