About subscription-manager
Any of the operations that can be performed through the CentOS Subscription Manager UI can also be performed by running the subscription-manager tool. This tools has the following format:
[root@server1 ~]# subscription-manager command [options]
Each command has its own set of options that are used with it. The subscription-manager help and manpage have more information.
Table 14.1. subscription-manager Commands
| Command | Description |
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| register | Registers or identifies a new system to the subscription service. |
| unregister | Unregisters a machine, which strips its subscriptions and removes the machine from the subscription service. |
| subscribe | Allocates a specific subscription to the machine. |
| redeem | Autosubscribes a machine to a pre-specified subscription that was purchased from a vendor, based on its hardware and BIOS information. |
| refresh | Pulls the latest entitlement data from the server. Normally, the system polls the entitlement server at a set interval (4 hours by default) to check for any changes in the available subscriptions. The refresh command checks with the entitlement server right then, outside the normal interval.
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| unsubscribe | Removes a specific subscription or all subscriptions from the machine. |
| list | Lists all of the subscriptions that are compatible with a machine, either subscriptions that are actually consumed by the machine or unused subscriptions that are available to the machine. |
| identity | Handles the identity certificate and registration ID for a system. This command can be used to return the current UUID or generate a new identity certificate. |
| facts | Lists the system information, like the release version, number of CPUs, and other architecture information. |
| clean | Removes all of the subscription and identity data from the local system, without affecting the consumer information in the subscription service. Any of the subscriptions consumed by the system are still consumed and are not available for other systems to use. The clean command is useful in cases where the local entitlement information is corrupted or lost somehow, and the system will be reregistered using the register --consumerid=EXISTING_ID command.
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| orgs, repos, environments | Lists all of the configured organizations, environments, and content repositories that are available to the given user account or system. These commands are used to view information in a multi-org infrastructure. They are not used to configure the local machine or multi-org infrastructure. |