How do i register to the rhn in redhat 7?

petulia3478

In Redhat 7 use the subscription-manager It replaces the previous rhn-register, rhnreg_ks and up2date commands

Registers systems to a subscription management service and then attaches and man‐
ages subscriptions for software products.

List subscriptions (repos) you are already subscribed to

$ sudo subscription-manager list

+-------------------------------------------+
    Installed Product Status
+-------------------------------------------+
Product Name:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Public Beta
Product ID:     226
Version:        7.0 Beta
Arch:           x86_64
Status:         Unknown
Status Details: 
Starts:         
Ends:           

Product Name:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Product ID:     69
Version:        7.2
Arch:           x86_64
Status:         Unknown
Status Details: 
Starts:         
Ends:

A list of sub-commands you can run via subscription-manager

              1. register

              2. unregister

              3. attach

              4. auto-attach

              5. remove

              6. release

              7. service-level

              8. import

              9. redeem

              10. list

              11. refresh

              12. environments

              13. repos

              14. orgs

              15. plugins

              16. identity

              17. facts

              18. clean

              19. config
          
              20. version

              21. status

              22. deprecated commands: subscribe, unsubscribe, and activate

              23. repo-override

There is a GUI version subscription-manager-gui.

The subscription-manager is used in conjunction with a locally installed Redhat Satellite Server, but can be used without it.

If you have just installed a new system, the systems needs to register with the RHN before you can see and subscribe to the repos.

To register, type the command below and press return, it will prompt for RHN password.

# subscription-manager register --username <youruser to RHN>