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Hosts -> Content Hosts -> Register Content Host ->

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If you want to use client tools such as katello-agent or puppet, the satellite-tools repository will need to be enabled

subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-\*-satellite-tools-\*-rpms

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Hosts -> Content Hosts -> Register Content Host ->

This page does not have the below instruction which was there in prior versions.

Actual results:

To register a content host to this server, follow these steps.

    Select a Content Source:

Install the pre-built bootstrap RPM:

curl --insecure --output katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm https://katello.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm 

Register using subscription-manager:

Using an Activation Key:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --activationkey="<Activation Key Name>" 

Using a username and password:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --environment="Library" 

Install client package:

To report package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools

To optionally report tracer information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools-tracer

For remote actions and reporting package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-agent

Learn more about these packages in the Documentation

Expected results:

To register a content host to this server, follow these steps.

    Select a Content Source:

Install the pre-built bootstrap RPM:

curl --insecure --output katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm https://katello.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm 

Register using subscription-manager:

Using an Activation Key:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --activationkey="<Activation Key Name>" 

Using a username and password:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --environment="Library" 

If you want to use client tools such as katello-agent or puppet, the satellite-tools repository will need to be enabled

subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-\*-satellite-tools-\*-rpms

Install client package:

To report package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools

To optionally report tracer information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools-tracer

For remote actions and reporting package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-agent

Learn more about these packages in the Documentation