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Automated Satellite Workshop: Insights Environment Setup

Introduction
This use-case will focus on connecting an individual's Red Hat Portal Account to the Automated Satellite Workshop environment for the purposes of demonstrating Insights functionality.

This exercise is primarily targeted for a Red Hat SA/SSP to deliver a demo of the Insights services, though any individual with a Red Hat Portal Account, the appropriate account permissions and other prerequiistes could run through this exercise.

This exercise is perscriptive in its setup, yet open-ended in its implementation.

Environment

  • Satellite 6.x
  • Ansible Automation Platform 4.x
  • 3x RHEL 7 instances
  • Red Hat Portal Account with 2 availble Red Hat RHEL Instanced-based Subscriptions
    • Please note - that this lab will consume 2 subscriptions for the duration of this workshop

Exercise Scenario

  • Exercise: Setup Insights

Overview

Summary

  • Insights is a hosted service on console.redhat.com. In order to access this service you need a Red Hat Portal Account
  • Since accounts are associated with subscriptions, sharing an account widely could cause a lost of control of the account and subscription consumption
  • Therefore this exercise will require the use of a user portal account and will require 2 RHEL Subscriptions

Ok, let's get started...

Prerequisites

  • Information required for executing this exercise

    • Manifest created in your portal account targeted to Satellite 6.15 with appropriate subscriptions including a minimum of 2 RHEL Instance-based subscriptions with Smart Management (Employee SKU can be used) and 1 Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure subscription

      • Record the name ⇒ manifest_name

    • Offline Token for accessing the Subscription Manager API

      • access.redhat.com -> Subscriptions -> Manage -> RHSM API Tokens - Generate Token ⇒ offline_token

    • Your Organization ID

      • access.redhat.com -> Subscriptions -> Systems -> Activation Keys ⇒ rhsm_org_id OR
      • console.redhat.com -> Services -> Platform/Red Hat Enterprise Linux -> Inventory -> System Configuration -> Activation Keys⇒ rhsm_org_id

    • Red Hat Account username and password

      • username ⇒ redhat_portal_username
      • password ⇒ redhat_portal_password

Exercise:

Login to your AAP UI's

NOTE The following are example URLs. Your student lab URLs will be different.

Steps:

1. Logging into the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)

  • Use a web browser on your computer to access the AAP GUI via the link found in the Environment above. And use the following username and password to login: admin /

login screen

  • Upon successful login, you will be able to see the Ansible Automation Platform dashboard.

2. Setup Insights Template

  • Use the side pane menu on the left to select Templates.

  • Scroll down to find Z / SETUP / Insights.

NOTE This template is a workflow template as indicated by the visualizer icon and type = Workflow Job Template

Setup Insight

  • Click visualizer Icon and review the workflow that will configure the environment for Insights

Insights Workflow

  • This workflow job template executes the following job templates

    • Insights / Replace Satellite Manifest - Replaces the Satellite manifest in the workshop with one that attaches to your Red Hat Portal Account
    • SERVER / RHEL7 - Register - Registers the hosts to Satellite
    • Insights / Install and Register - Installs Insights and registers the 3 RHEL hosts to Insights. It also runs the Insights Compliance role which installs the openscap packages on the hosts
    • Insights / Create Insights Credential - Creates the AAP Insights Credential using your portal account information
    • Insights / Create Insights Project - Creates an Insights Project in AAP that provides a project for remediation playbooks created in Insights to be consumed by AAP

NOTE Prior to executing the workflow job template you MUST add variables to the template. To do that:

  • Click pencil to the right of Z / SETUP / Insights. This will open the edit details window as shown below:

setup-insights

  • Configure the following variables captured during the prerequisites:

    • manifest_name
    • offline_token
    • rhsm_org_id
    • redhat_portal_username
    • redhat_portal_password

  • Once the variables are entered click Save

  • Then click Launch

  • Since we are registering hosts to Satellite during this workflow you will be presented with this screen

complete survey

  • Enter the information as follows:

    • Server Name or Pattern - node
    • Choose Environment - Dev

  • Click Next and then Launch and watch the workflow complete

NOTE You may click on each job template being executed to see the details of that job template run)

  • A successful workflow run will show the following:

workflow complete

At this point in the exercise the Ansible Satellite Workshop is now connected to your Red Hat Portal Account and is configured to support demonstrating Insights.