subscribe-rhn

This playbook configures are RHEL server to receive its updates from RHN or a Satellite 6 server. It registers against Satellite or RHN with orgid and activationkey or username and password

Requirements

To use this role you need a proper Red Hat subscription. If you are a developer you can obtain your personal free subscription from here https://developers.redhat.com/products/sap/download/ by registering as developer

Role Variables

You can then set the following variables in the playbook:

satellite_server: FQDN

Set the following variables if you want to register with activationkey and orgid:

 reg_activation_key:
 reg_organization_id:

Use the following variables to register with your RHN username and password. You should use ansible-vault or tower to encrypt your credentials.

  reg_pool:
  reg_pool_ids:
  reg_username:
  reg_password:

The following are optional:

reg_server_insecure: defaults to no
reg_autosubscribe: defaults to unset
reg_osrelease: default unset, can set to 7Server, 7.2, 7.3 etc
reg_server_proxy_hostname:  HTTP proxy hostname
reg_server_proxy_port: HTTP proxy port
reg_server_proxy_user: user for HTTP proxy with basic authentication
reg_server_proxy_password: password for HTTP proxy with basic authentication

Set this variable to true if you want to remove/disable all previously existing repositories. The default is false

 repo_reset: true

Use this to define the list of repositories you want to subscribe to

 repositories:
              - rhel-7-server-rpms
              - repo2
              - repo3

The default is set to rhel-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}-server-rpmswhich is resolved to e.g. rhel-7-server-rpms or rhel-6-server-rpms, depending on the RHEL major release.

Example Playbook

Here is an example playbook that registers a server against Red Hat Network (satellite_server is not defined) with the activationkey myregistration and the organization id 123456. The release is locked down to RHEL 7.4, all previously defined repositories are removed and the system will rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms and rhel-sap-hana-for-rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms. (For SAP see also https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3075991)

- hosts: servers
  remote_user: root

  vars:
      # satellite_server: FQDN
      #
      # Option 1
      reg_activation_key: myregistration
      reg_organization_id: 123456

      #
      # Option 2:
      #    reg_pool:
      #    reg_pool_ids:
      #    reg_username:
      #    reg_password:
      #
      # The following are optional
      reg_server_insecure: yes
      #reg_autosubscribe: yes
      reg_osrelease: 7.4

      # Set this variable to true if you want to remove/disable all previously existing repositories. The default is false
      repo_reset: true

      repositories:
              - rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms
              - rhel-sap-hana-for-rhel-7-server-e4s-rpms

  roles:
     - { role: mk-ansible-roles.subscribe-rhn }

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004

Author Information

Markus Koch

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