This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

December 23, 2022 Leave a comment

Problem:

Trying to install/update/search packages using yum fails:

[root@app1 mari_scripts]# yum whatprovides clang
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, product-id, search-
              : disabled-repos, subscription-manager,
              : versionlock
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

Excluding 1 update due to versionlock (use "yum versionlock status" to show it)
No matches found

Actually, it is still searching for the package, but the messages, in the beginning, are frustrating. So let’s just solve it.

I tried to register the system, but here also did a mistake, I have indicated the email address in the username:

[root@app1 mari_scripts]# subscription-manager register
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
Username: <my RHEL username, email address>
Password:
HTTP error (401 - Unauthorized): Invalid username or password. To create a login, please visit https://www.redhat.com/wapps/ugc/register.html

I was able to login through browser but could not register the system with it.

Solution:

After searching a lot and losing my time, I came accross one thread where the person was saying that account id should be used instead of email address. By the way, later found out the the RHEL also was mentioning that in one of its articles:

“Please use your Login ID/User ID instead of your Email Address to register your RHEL machine.”

So go to you account settings from browser and see what is your Login name, register the system with it:

[root@app1 mari_scripts]# subscription-manager register
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
Username: <myloginnamegoeshere>
Password:
The system has been registered with ID: 22328e0c-f672-4489-939b-529a9d2875a1
The registered system name is: app1.mycompany.mydomain
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Create a Local Yum Repository for Oracle Linux 6

July 12, 2016 Leave a comment

0. Just to note –repoid parameter has two dashes in front (- – repoid). Unfortunately wordpress makes it one dash. Please, do not blame me 🙂

1. Create OEL.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d and add the following entry

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/OEL.repo

[oraclerpms]
name=OracleEnterpriseLinux
baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
enabled=1

2. Install yum-utils and createrepo packages

# yum install yum-utils createrepo

3. It is better to add another disk and create repository there, do not use / disk(disk where OS is installed) for repository. It is just a best practice.

Create necessary folders:

# mkdir -p /OEL_repo/OEL6/latest
# mkdir -p /OEL_repo/logs
# mkdir -p /OEL_repo/scripts

4. Download rpms.
If you are using proxy you may need to set proxy parameters like  export http_proxy=http://proxy_server_ip:proxy_port/

/usr/bin/reposync –newest-only –repoid=oraclerpms -p /OEL_repo/OEL6/latest

5. After download completes create repository on downloaded rpms:

/usr/bin/createrepo /OEL_repo/OEL6/latest/oraclerpms/getPackage/

####################
The above steps should be done every time you want to update your local repository, so let’s create script and place all them in one file.

vi /OEL_repo/scripts/repo_sync.sh

#!/bin/bash

LOG_FILE=/OEL_repo/logs/repo_sync_$(date +%Y.%m.%d).log

# Delete old logs
find /OEL_repo/logs/repo_sync* -mtime +5 -delete; >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1

#Clean cache
yum clean all

# Sync repositories
/usr/bin/reposync /usr/bin/reposync –newest-only –repoid=oraclerpms -p /OEL_repo/OEL6/latest >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1

/usr/bin/createrepo /OEL_repo/OEL6/latest/oraclerpms/getPackage/ >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1

2. Change permissions for the executable script:

# chmod u+x /OEL_repo/scripts/repo_sync.sh

3. Set up a CRON job to run the script on a daily basis. The following entry runs the script each day at 01:00.

0 1 * * * /OEL_repo/scripts/repo_sync.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

###############

1. Install the Apache HTTP servers, start it and make sure it restarts automatically on reboot.

# yum install httpd
# service httpd start
# chkconfig httpd on

2. Create directory and place link there

mkdir -p /var/www/html/OEL_repo/OEL6/latest
ln -s /OEL_repo/OEL6/latest/oraclerpms/getPackage/ /var/www/html/OEL_repo/OEL6/latest/x86_64

# cd /var/www/html
# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-ol6

Note: /var/www/html is the default DocumentRoot directory. To check yours(sysadmin may have changed it) please check /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and find the keyword DocumentRoot

##############

1. Configure clients

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/local-ol6.repo

[oraclerpms]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=http://RepositoryServerHostname.domain.ge/OEL_repo/OEL6/latest/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://RepositoryServerHostname.domain.ge/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-ol6
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Now you are able to install packages on clients by

# yum install ntp

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