How to Register and Enable Red Hat Subscription, Repositories and Updates for RHEL 8.4 Server

Last Updated on January 12, 2023 by Vikash Ekka

How to Register and Enable Red Hat Subscription, Repositories and Updates for RHEL 8.4 Server

A subscription service has the function to recognize registered systems with the products installed on them. Without a subscription, you are not allowed to get an update, supports, and install repositories. If you want to update or install a package that is not associated with DNF or YUM command. You may get the bellow messages.

“This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register. Error: There are no enabled repositories in “/etc/yum.repos.d”, “/etc/yum/repos.d”, “/etc/distro.repos.d”.” 

Local Subscription Manager service tracks down the installed software products or packages, available and used subscriptions, and interacts with the Red Hat Customer Portal through tools like YUM.

To fix this issue first we have to create a Subscription account on Red Hat, and it’s free to create. Here we are using the Red Hat subscription-manager to manage your subscriptions and repository through the terminal.

Click here to Register your account on REHL

Prerequisites

• sudo user

• Internet connection

• firewall access for subscription.rhsm.redhat.com on port 443

• Red Hat Active Subscription User Id and Password. 

Register and Enable Red Hat Subscription, Repositories, and Updates for RHEL 8.4 Server

Step1. Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open the terminal on the screen.

Step2. To register with a Red Hat subscription, use the following command to                        connect with the Red Hat Subscription.

[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager register --username your_userId --password your_password

NOTE: After the system is successfully authenticated an ID will be generated on                     your system.

Step3. Below command will list the available subscription where you will get a                         Pool   ID at the bottom or middle of outputs.

[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager list --available

Step4. Now Activate a subscription using Subscription Pool ID

[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager subscribe --pool=Pool_ID number

Enable Red Hat Subscription, Repositories and Updates for RHEL 8.4 Server

Step5. Use DNF or YUM command to list the update repository

[root@localhost user]#  dnf repolist

Step6. Now its time to check the update using yum update

[root@localhost user]#  yum update

[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager repos --list

To check your enabled subscriptions, use the below command.

[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager list

How to Unregister  or remove activation from Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) 

[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager remove --pool=Pool_ID
[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager unregister
[root@localhost user]#  subscription-manager clean

Conclusion