Subscription Manager

The Red Hat Enterprise Subscription Manager does what its name implies, which is manages your subscription to Red Hat Supported software. This isn’t what I normally do day-to-day, so I’m constantly looking up what the commands are to interact with it. This post is more of a note to myself on the common things that I keep forgetting how to do.

Check subscription status

subscription-manager status

View Pool ID

This is useful if you need to save the existing Pool ID before attempting to re/attach it to a different pool.

subscription-manager list --consumed

View enabled repos

Note that ‘sudo’ may be required if they say they’re all disabled

yum repolist all

Manage repos

subscription-manager --disable <repoid>
subscription-manager --enable <repoid>

Refresh packages

This is useful after manipulating the available repos through subscription manager.

yum clean all -v
yum makecache