To lock the RHEL OS version

Purpose

If the RHEL OS version is not locked in your RHEL subscription manager, a RHEL OS version not yet supported by the CLM may be accidentally deployed during the OS installation.

Perform the following procedure to prevent the deployment of an unsupported RHEL OS version on a CLM station.

Steps
 

It is recommended that you lock the RHEL OS at the latest version that the CLM supports. The Host Environment Compatibility Reference for NSP and CLM includes a support matrix for CLM and RHEL version compatibility.

Use the support matrix to identify the latest supported RHEL version for the CLM release.


Log in as the root user on the station that hosts the OS.


Open a console window.


Enter the following:

subscription-manager release --set=version

where version is the RHEL version to lock, for example, 8.10

The version is locked.


Close the console window.

End of steps