Chapter 16. Configuring System Purpose using the subscription-manager command-line tool System purpose is a feature of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation to help RHEL customers get the benefit of our subscription experience and services offered in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, a dashboard-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that enables you to view subscription usage in your Red Hat account. You can configure system purpose attributes either on the activation keys or by using the subscription manager tool. Prerequisites You have installed and registered your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system, but system purpose is not configured. You are logged in as a root user. Note In the entitlement mode, if your system is registered but has subscriptions that do not satisfy the required purpose, you can run the subscription-manager remove --all command to remove attached subscriptions. You can then use the command-line subscription-manager syspurpose {role, usage, service-level} tools to set the required purpose attributes, and lastly run subscription-manager attach --auto to re-entitle the system with considerations for the updated attributes. Whereas, in the SCA enabled account, you can directly update the system purpose details post registration without making an update to the subscriptions in the system. Procedure From a terminal window, run the following command to set the intended role of the system: Replace VALUE with the role that you want to assign: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compute Node For example: Optional: Before setting a value, see the available roles supported by the subscriptions for your organization: Optional: Run the following command to unset the role: Run the following command to set the intended Service Level Agreement (SLA) of the system: Replace VALUE with the SLA that you want to assign: Premium Standard Self-Support For example: Optional: Before setting a value, see the available service-levels supported by the subscriptions for your organization: Optional: Run the following command to unset the SLA: Run the following command to set the intended usage of the system: Replace VALUE with the usage that you want to assign: Production Disaster Recovery Development/Test For example: Optional: Before setting a value, see the available usages supported by the subscriptions for your organization: Optional: Run the following command to unset the usage: Run the following command to show the current system purpose properties: Optional: For more detailed syntax information run the following command to access the subscription-manager man page and browse to the SYSPURPOSE OPTIONS: Verification To verify the system's subscription status in a system registered with an account having entitlement mode enabled: An overall status Current means that all of the installed products are covered by the subscription(s) attached and entitlements to access their content set repositories has been granted. A system purpose status Matched means that all of the system purpose attributes (role, usage, service-level) that were set on the system are satisfied by the subscription(s) attached. When the status information is not ideal, additional information is displayed to help the system administrator decide what corrections to make to the attached subscriptions to cover the installed products and intended system purpose. To verify the system's subscription status in a system registered with an account having SCA mode enabled: In SCA mode, subscriptions are no longer required to be attached to individual systems. Hence, both the overall status and system purpose status are displayed as Disabled . However, the technical, business, and operational use cases supplied by system purpose attributes are important to the subscriptions service. Without these attributes, the subscriptions service data is less accurate. Additional resources To learn more about the subscriptions service, see the Getting Started with the Subscriptions Service guide .

Commands:
subscription-manager syspurpose role --set "VALUE"
subscription-manager syspurpose role --set "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
subscription-manager syspurpose role --list
subscription-manager syspurpose role --unset
subscription-manager syspurpose service-level --set "VALUE"
subscription-manager syspurpose service-level --set "Standard"
subscription-manager syspurpose service-level --list
subscription-manager syspurpose service-level --unset
subscription-manager syspurpose usage --set "VALUE"
subscription-manager syspurpose usage --set "Production"
subscription-manager syspurpose usage --list
subscription-manager syspurpose usage --unset
subscription-manager syspurpose --show
man subscription-manager
subscription-manager status +-------------------------------------------+ System Status Details +-------------------------------------------+ Overall Status: Current System Purpose Status: Matched
subscription-manager status +-------------------------------------------+ System Status Details +-------------------------------------------+ Overall Status: Disabled Content Access Mode is set to Simple Content Access. This host has access to content, regardless of subscription status. System Purpose Status: Disabled