Document URL:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.8/html-single/managing_hosts/index#host-management-without-goferd-and-katello-agent_managing-hosts

Section Number and Name:
Chapter 12. Host Management Without Goferd and Katello Agent

Describe the issue:
This section states that management of hosts without katello-agent requires package katello-host-tools, which uploads the profiles of installed packages and enabled repositories in the host to the Satellite.

As per "Explanation" in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1742208#c0 , modern builds of subscription-manager available for RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 also upload the profiles of installed packages and enabled repositories in the host to the Satellite.

See http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/satellite6-list/2020-November/msg00041.html as well.

If subscription-manager is configured with package_profile_on_trans=1 in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf , katello-host-tools disables itself in favour of subscription-manager.

Suggestions for improvement:
The document should mention the possibility of not installing katello-host-tools, which is not required if a modern enough subscription-manager is configured appropriately.
This also removes the need to enable the Satellite Tools repository in the Satellite hosts, and the need to change it on every Satellite host when a new Satellite release is available.

Additional information:
The document should mention that katello-host-tools is still required as a dependency for katello-host-tools-tracer if tracer functionality is desired.