Register systems with Red Hat Insights.
Outcomes
Use the Insights client to register a RHEL system.
As the student user on the workstation machine, use the lab command to prepare your environment for this exercise, and to ensure that all required resources are available.
[student@workstation ~]$ lab start insights-registering
Instructions
Register the serverd machine with Red Hat Insights.
Log in to the serverd machine as the student user.
No password is required.
[student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@serverd
[student@serverd ~]$Use the sudo -i command to switch identity to the root user.
Use student as the password.
[student@serverd ~]$sudo -i[sudo] password for student:student[root@serverd ~]#
Use the insights-client command to register the machine.
[root@serverd ~]# insights-client --registerNavigate to → to verify that the serverd machine is added successfully.
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Use the insights-client command to upload the client's information to the Red Hat Insight service.
[root@serverd ~]# insights-client
Uploading Insights data.
Successfully uploaded report from serverd.lab.example.com to account 5296548.
View details about this system on console.redhat.com:
https://console.redhat.com/insights/inventory/bcbf902a-dffc-485e-9aee-af36efc53658When finished, return to the workstation machine.
[root@serverd ~]#logout[student@serverd ~]$logout[student@workstation ~]$