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Red Hat Partner Connect Validation Guide

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Initial onboarding

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Managing your account

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Partner Validation

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GETTING HELP

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Managing Users

To view the current list of users associated with your partner account, click Team Members from the Account Details page.

In this section, if you are an Org Admin for your company, you will be able to Add Users:

1. Browse to your list of account users & click Add User.

3. Fill in required information and click SAVE.

For a User to access software and certification tools, you must check the Organization Administrator (Org Admin) box. Multiple users can be Organization Administrators.

Red Hat Partner Connect - Partner Validation Guide

This guide provides instructions on how to join Red Hat Connect and validate your products for publication in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.

Provide details about your product

In this step you provide information about your product that will be published in the catalog. That includes an overview, product features, as well as supporting content. This is an opportunity to promote its capabilities to customers and to other Red Hat partners.

The Contacts information will only be used by Red Hat if we need to contact you about this validation request.

Here you can create an entry for a new product, or edit an existing one. If your product includes one or more containers, select Containerized Application. Otherwise, select Standalone Application.

Within the page for that product, go to the Product Information tab to provide all necessary information:

You must go through each Listing details in the left hand menu and fill out all required information. The PUBLISH button won't be enabled if required fields are missing.

In the SEO section, make sure you select the Product category that best captures its capabilities. For example, if your product's core functionality is artificial intelligence, select AI/ML as its category.

Company Profile

Verify and update this information due to the fact that your company profile is used for several scenarios including:

  • Communication of program changes

Instructions for editing your company profile

  1. Click on Product certification in the top menu bar, and select Certify your software

  2. Click My organization and then select Company profile

  3. Update and fill in all mandatory fields, then click SUBMIT at the end of the page.

Log into the and go to your . You can always find it under the Product Management menu:

Promoting your company through the

Partner Connect website
products page
Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog

Register as a New Partner

Begin registering a new company by going to the New company registration page.

  • If you are starting fresh and your company has not already registered with Red Hat, click Register a new company

  • If you have already registered your company and joined the program, click Log In on the upper right corner instead. You may need to reach out to the Administrator of your company account (OrgAdmin) to get invited to an existing company.

If you believe your company has an existing account but you are not sure who is the Org Admin for your company, please create a ticket with the Partner Acceleration Desk.

Fill in all required fields and click Create my account at the bottom.

Fill out the Partner onboarding questionnaire.

Once the 'Team details' section is complete, click the 'Review terms to complete onboarding' button to review and acknowledge Partner legal agreements.

An email verification will be sent to the email address provided. Once you verify your email address, log in to the Red Hat Partner Connect web portal.

To log in, Click Log In in the upper right corner and Log In for Technology Partners

Publish your product information

Once the partner validation request has been approved and the product information has been completed, the Publish button will be enabled on your product page:

Clicking on this button will create a page at catalog.redhat.com dedicated to your product. You will be able to see the details by clicking on the View Product button in the product table header. Note that there may be a short (up to an hour) delay between publishing and the listing showing up in the catalog.

If you are already logged in, the button label will display 'Join the program'

Software Access

As part of your partnership with Red Hat, you can request a Red Hat Partner Subscription (RHPS) to use Red Hat software to complete and continue Partner Validation.

To request software access as a partner, follow the instructions below.

You must be an Org Admin of your Partner Connect Portal account to request a RHPS. If you do not know who your Org Admin is, please open at ticket as described in the Getting Help section.

Please note that a Red Hat Partner Subscription expires annually and a partner must request a new RHPS every year.

Once your access has been approved, you may download software from the Customer Portal.

Instructions for requesting software access

  1. Navigate to https://connect.redhat.com/partner-with-us/partner-benefits/partner-subscriptions

  2. Click "Request Subscription"

  3. Fill out the form with the use cases and click "Request Partner Subscription"

  1. If successful, you will see a message saying your subscription has been activated.

Partner Acceleration Desk

Partner Acceleration Desk is a service for all our technology partners where they can ask technical and non-technical questions pertaining to Red Hat offerings, programs, engagement processes, etc. The Partner Acceleration Desk is available to current Red Hat Technology Partners or other non-partners who would like to join the program. This is an “ask me anything” type of offering. So reach out to us with any questions you might have.

You can access the Success Desk by going to: Red Hat Help Request. For assistance with Partner Validation, select General support and then Product certification as the category.

Complete the validation questionnaire

When viewing the page for the product you want to validate, click Start on Certify or validate your product or switch to the Components & Testing tab.

Click on Start Validation, to indicate whether your product is supported on RHEL, OpenShift or both and to select the version(s) supported.

Continue to access the validation questionnaire. The questionnaire will prompt you for additional information about your tests, including links to your documentation where you cover platform support.

Complete the information requested and submit the form. Red Hat will review the request and contact you if a clarification is needed.

Verify the functionality of your product

Deploy your product and verify its functionality running on OpenShift or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. See the Software Access section for information on how to request access to the Red Hat products .

Run the tests you need to verify the correct behavior of your product on the Red Hat platform. Make sure to update your documentation where platform support is tracked, usually in documents such as a support matrix or an installation guide.