insights-client(8)

NAME
insights-client - Red Hat Insights Client tool

SYNOPSIS
insights-client [options]

DESCRIPTION
insights-client is designed to help customers proactively resolve issues affecting business operations in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure environments. View alerts or learn more at https://cloud.redhat.com/insights/. Due to the dynamic nature of this application, some options may become available that are not described in the manual. Please refer to the output of --help for the most up-to-date options.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Show this help message and exit.

--register
    Register host to the Red Hat Insights service.

--unregister
    Unregister host from the Red Hat Insights service.

--display-name=DISPLAYNAME
    Display name to use for this host. May be used during registration.

--group=GROUP
    Group to add this host to during registration.

--retry=RETRIES
    Number of times to retry uploading. 180 seconds between tries.

--validate
    Validate remove.conf.

--quiet
    Only display error messages to stdout.

--silent
    Display no messages to stdout.

--enable-schedule
    Enable automatic scheduling.

--disable-schedule
    Disable automatic scheduling.

-c CONF, --conf=CONF
    Pass a custom config file.

--to-stdout
    Print archive to stdout; sets --silent and --no-upload.

--compressor
    Specifies the compression algorithm to use. Choices are gz, bz2, xz, and none. Defaults to gz.

--offline
    Collect locally only, do not connect to Insights and do not upload.

--logging-file
    Specify a logfile other than the default.

DEBUG OPTIONS

--version
    Display version.

--test-connection
    Test connectivity to Red Hat.

--force-reregister
    Forcefully reregister this host to Red Hat. Will create a new ID for this host and create a new entry. Use only as directed.

--verbose
    DEBUG output to stdout

--no-upload
    Do not upload the archive.

--keep-archive
    Do not delete archive after upload.

--support
    Create a support logfile for Red Hat Insights.

--status
    Check this host's registration status with Red Hat Insights.

--net-debug
    Log network activity.

MOTD
A message will be displayed on login about insights-client if installed but has not yet been used at least once. To change or remove this message, edit the /etc/insights-client/insights-client.motd file.

SEE ALSO
insights-client.conf(5)