Description of problem:

Customers using third party tools for Red Hat repository management need a reliable way to entitle those tools like JFrog Artifactory. JFrog currently instructs users to download the entitlement certificate from a system registered to the Red Hat Customer Portal[1]. The problem with this method is that the entitlement certificates are periodically revoked (for reasons like new content being added or during yum/dnf operations).

What JFrog is doing is:

• creating a stub host record in RHSM.
• attaching a sub to it.
• downloading the entitlement certificate and using that for
authorization/authentication to cdn.redhat.com

Expected results:

Build an interface that can properly handle the lifecycle of the entitlement certificates similar to subscription-manager and Satellite's manifest system for use with third party tools.

Additional info:

[1] https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/how-to-mirror-a-red-hat-network-rhn-repository/