Chapter 6. Registering Clients You can register a client running a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, or 8 operating system to Capsule Servers that you configure for load balancing. For more information about registering clients and configuring them to use Puppet, see Registering Hosts in the Managing Hosts guide. To register clients, proceed to one of the following procedures: Section 6.1, "Red Hat Satellite host registration" Section 6.2, " (Deprecated) Registering Clients Using the Bootstrap Script" Section 6.3, " (Deprecated) Registering Clients Manually with katello-ca-consumer rpm" 6.1. Red Hat Satellite host registration You can register hosts with Satellite using the host registration feature, the Satellite API, or Hammer CLI. Procedure In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > Register Host . Click Generate to create the registration command. Click on the files icon to copy the command to your clipboard. Log in to the host you want register and run the previously generated command. Update subscription manager configuration for rhsm.baseurl and server.hostname : Check the /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file and ensure that the appropriate repositories have been enabled. CLI procedure Generate the host registration command using the Hammer CLI: If your hosts do not trust the SSL certificate of Satellite Server, you can disable SSL validation by adding the --insecure flag to the registration command. Log in to the host you want register and run the previously generated command. Update subscription manager configuration for rhsm.baseurl and server.hostname : Check the /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file and ensure that the appropriate repositories have been enabled. API procedure Generate the host registration command using the Satellite API: If your hosts do not trust the SSL certificate of Satellite Server, you can disable SSL validation by adding the --insecure flag to the registration command. Use an activation key to simplify specifying the environments. For more information, see Managing Activation Keys in the Content Management guide. To enter a password as command line argument, use username:password syntax. Keep in mind this can save the password in the shell history. For more information about registration see Registering a Host to Red Hat Satellite in Managing Hosts . Log in to the host you want register and run the previously generated command. Update subscription manager configuration for rhsm.baseurl and server.hostname : Check the /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file and ensure that the appropriate repositories have been enabled. 6.2. (Deprecated) Registering Clients Using the Bootstrap Script To register clients, enter the following command on the client. You must complete the registration procedure for each client. Prerequisite Ensure that you install the bootstrap script on the client and change the script's file permissions to executable. For more information, see Registering Hosts to Red Hat Satellite Using The Bootstrap Script in the Managing Hosts guide. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, enter the following command: 1 Include the --puppet-ca-port 8141 option if you use Puppet. 2 Include the --force option to register the client that has been previously registered to a standalone Capsule. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 6, or 5, enter the following command: 1 Include the --puppet-ca-port 8141 option if you use Puppet. 2 Include the --force option to register the client that has been previously registered to a standalone Capsule. The script prompts for the password corresponding to the Satellite user name you entered with the --login option. 6.3. (Deprecated) Registering Clients Manually with katello-ca-consumer rpm To register clients manually, complete the following procedure on each client that you register. Procedure Remove the katello-ca-consumer package if it is installed: Install the katello-ca-consumer package from the load balancer: Register the client and include the --serverurl and --baseurl options:

Commands:
subscription-manager config --rhsm.baseurl=https://loadbalancer.example.com/pulp/content --server.hostname=loadbalancer.example.com
hammer host-registration generate-command --activation-keys " My_Activation_Key "
hammer host-registration generate-command --activation-keys " My_Activation_Key " --insecure true
subscription-manager config --rhsm.baseurl=https://loadbalancer.example.com/pulp/content --server.hostname=loadbalancer.example.com
curl -X POST https://satellite.example.com/api/registration_commands --user " My_User_Name " -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "registration_command": { "activation_keys": [" My_Activation_Key_1 , My_Activation_Key_2 "] }}'
curl -X POST https://satellite.example.com/api/registration_commands --user " My_User_Name " -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "registration_command": { "activation_keys": [" My_Activation_Key_1 , My_Activation_Key_2 "], "insecure": true }}'
subscription-manager config --rhsm.baseurl=https://loadbalancer.example.com/pulp/content --server.hostname=loadbalancer.example.com
/usr/libexec/platform-python bootstrap.py --login= admin --server loadbalancer.example.com --organization=" My_Organization " --location=" My_Location " --hostgroup=" My_Hostgroup " --activationkey=" My_Activation_Key " --enablerepos=satellite-client-6-for-rhel-8-<arch>-rpms --puppet-ca-port 8141 \ 1 --force 2
python bootstrap.py --login= admin --server loadbalancer.example.com --organization=" My_Organization " --location=" My_Location " --hostgroup=" My_Hostgroup " --activationkey=" My_Activation_Key " --enablerepos=rhel-7-server-satellite-client-6-rpms --puppet-ca-port 8141 \ 1 --force 2
yum remove 'katello-ca-consumer*'
rpm -Uvh http:// loadbalancer.example.com /pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
subscription-manager register --activationkey= My_Activation_Key --baseurl=https:// loadbalancer.example.com /pulp/content/ --org= Your_Organization --serverurl=https:// loadbalancer.example.com /rhsm