How to register and subscribe a system offline to the Red Hat Customer Portal?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM)
- Red Hat Customer Portal
Issue
- Why does the Offline system need to be registered with the Red Hat Customer portal?
- How to register a new Offline Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to the Customer Portal?
- How to register a system that is not connected to the internet?
- How to register a disconnected system?
- How to manually register a system to the Customer Portal?
- How to create a system profile in Red Hat Subscription Management?
- How to import RHEL subscription certificates in offline environment?
- Subscription-manager list commands shows status as "Unknown" after registering systems offline
- Subscription-manager status displays error message "Unknown" even after importing the correct certificates
Resolution
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The offline registration feature of an "air-gapped" system is deprecated and no longer available with the transition to Simple Content Access
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For reporting purpose, This content is not included.Red Hat Discovery can be used.
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If a system is unable to register to subscription.rhsm.redhat.com to register, Refer to
How can we update a disconnected or an air-gapped system (A system without internet connection)?
Root Cause
- With the transition of registration workflow from the legacy entitlement method to the new Simple Content Access method, the functionality of registering systems offline as described in This content is not included.KCS 3121571 has been deprecated.
- For SCA enabled accounts, once after registration, the entitlement certificates are generated under /etc/pki/entitlement directory.
What are Entitlement Certificates in Red Hat Subscription Management?
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