Red Hat Satellite 6.2 is now available
Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Satellite 6.2.
Red Hat Satellite 6.0 included a redesigned product architecture to manage new types of content on a wide variety of platforms, including bare-metal, private, and public clouds.
Satellite 6.2 continues to build on that release and features the following:
Increase Efficiency with Automated Workflows
Satellite 6.2 introduces remote execution, automating workflows and enabling users to take multiple actions against groups of systems, such as rebooting a system after a patch install or conduct rolling upgrades across hundreds of systems as easily as one. Users can easily build a script library, share scripts and share repeatable workflows, enabling less experienced administrators to execute complex workflows. In addition, users can schedule tasks and use new dashboards for enhanced interaction with systems under management.
- Satellite 6.2 Feature Overview: Remote Execution: Satellite 6.2 has additional capabilities allowing it to run arbitrary commands on hosts using an SSH transport. Remote Execution leverages the Satellite Capsule so that the Satellite does not require direct access to the client. A number of templates are included for running basic commands, installing errata, etc. Additionally, customized templates can be created to suit your needs. https://access.redhat.com/articles/2464671
Increase Security in Disconnected Environments
Satellite 6.2 provides the ability to synchronize and export content from one Satellite to another, especially useful for organizations that require their systems management solution to run disconnected from the internet for security purposes.
- Satellite 6.2 Feature Overview: Inter-Satellite Sync: Inter Satellite Sync is a new feature of Satellite 6.2, which allows the ability to synchronize and export RPM content from one Satellite to another, especially useful for Satellites running in air-gapped environments. The feature allows export (full or incremental) of a repository, content view or a repository within a content view. These exports can optionally be created as ISOs to allow creation of CD or DVD media https://access.redhat.com/articles/2390791
More Flexible Provisioning
Discovery enhancements in Satellite simplify the process of building systems and allow end users to more efficiently provision systems in secured environments where DHCP and PXE may not be available.
- Satellite 6.2 Feature Overview: PXE-Less Discovery: Satellite 6.2 contains enhanced provisioning options, allowing users to now leverage the Discovery feature directly from a CDROM/DVDROM ISO. This ISO is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, supporting the full range of hardware that is certified to work with it. https://access.redhat.com/articles/2464701
Capsule visibility
The Red Hat Satellite Capsule user interface provides much deeper insight into the health of the Capsule, such as what services are running and their status, from the centralized Satellite console.
Ability to Import existing hosts
Satellite 6.2 features new scripts and automation to import existing Red Hat infrastructure hosts that may reside on any Red Hat systems management platform, including Red Hat Satellite 5.x. This bootstrap script automates the process of registering systems to Satellite, dramatically reducing the number of steps required to get existing systems ready to be managed by Red Hat Satellite.
- Satellite 6.2 Feature Overview: Importing Existing Hosts via the Bootstrap Script: The bootstrap script (bootstrap.py) provides a means to take existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems not provisioned via Satellite 6, and migrate or register them into Satellite 6. https://access.redhat.com/articles/2280691
Containers and the Container Host Infrastructure
The latest version of Red Hat Satellite includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Hosts support, enabling users to provision and manage Atomic Host, Red Hat’s minimal footprint platform optimized for running containers. Red Hat Satellite also supports RHEL Atomic Hosts as a compute resource, allowing containers to be deployed to RHEL Atomic Hosts. In addition, Red Hat Satellite now supports Docker v2 API and registries.
Enhanced documentation
This release includes both new and improved documentation. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-satellite/?version=6.2
* New Guides
* Virtual Instance Guide (How to configure virt-who)
* Hammer CLI Guide (How to use Satellite’s CLI)
* Content Management Guide (How to easily manage Satellite’s content )
* Quickstart Guide (How to get up and running quickly)
- Improved/more user-friendly documentation
- User Guide split to make more topical and easier to follow:
- Server Administration Guide
- Host Configuration Guide
- “Cheat Sheets” available for specific topics (Hammer)
In addition, numerous enhancements and fixes have been made that improve stability, reliability and scalability.

Comments
Did the host unification stuff happen in 6.2? Are there still two separate profiles for each host(Hosts => All Hosts, Hosts => Content Hosts)?
Thanks.
Sean,
There was discussion about this during the 6.2 beta, and the feedback was that they are merged in the database, but not in the UI.
Is there Drift remediation for puppet modules in satellite 6.2. or a better way to retrieve which environment is using a specific version of puppet module?
Thanks
And this, when trying to sync down the repo: access forbidden to https://cdn.redhat.com:443/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/satellite/6.2/os/repodata/repomd.xml For more information see the related failed task. Red Hat Satellite Capsule Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2104791
And anyone following that should be aware that if you generate a new manifest and upload it, you will need to resubscribe all of your hosts. It solved the basic problem, but created a whole new set of problems...
I've opened a case with support on this issue. Pretty silly to have to re-subscribe everything.
Users of Red Hat Satellite 6.2 should refer to the following solution instead: Cannot enable Red Hat Satellite Tools Repo on Satellite 6.2.
The instructions in Solution 2104791 are incorrect and so it has been removed from the Customer Portal.
This is a known issue with Red Hat Satellite 6.2 and is under investigation in BZ1360909.
Erinn,
Correct. As I have noted earlier in this discussion, those instructions were incorrect and so have been removed from the Customer Portal.
Users of Red Hat Satellite 6.2 should refer to the following solution instead: Cannot enable Red Hat Satellite Tools Repo on Satellite 6.2.
The instructions in Solution 2104791 are incorrect and so it has been removed from the Customer Portal.
This is a known issue with Red Hat Satellite 6.2 and is under investigation in BZ1360909.
Hi,
The correct solution to this Access Denied problem is mentioned in https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2475941
FYI Solution # 2104791, is retired.
Erinn,
Users of Red Hat Satellite 6.2 should refer to the following solution instead: Cannot enable Red Hat Satellite Tools Repo on Satellite 6.2.
The instructions in Solution 2104791 are incorrect and so it has been removed from the Customer Portal.
This is a known issue with Red Hat Satellite 6.2 and is under investigation in BZ1360909.
Russell,
I get the following when attempting to view the bug you have linked to: 'BZ1360909' is not a valid bug number nor an alias to a bug. '
Hi,
Correct BZ link is BZ # 1360909
Is this also solved? Red Hat engineer wrote: "We have an Internal Bugzilla for the "stack level too deep". The Bug ID is 1277085. As this is as an internal Bugzilla only the Red Hat employees will be able to view the report.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277085
Current status of this bugzilla is VERIFIED and this will ship with Satellite 6.2".
I didn't found this bugzilla ID on the release notes.
Yes, bz 1277085 was fixed in this release.
What is the situation with content channel ISOs? Are these now being made available for Satellite 6? I see that inter-Satellite sync has been added, but this would require a customer to run two Satellite instances if they want to run a disconnected Satellite (one disconnected, one connected). Are Red Hat planning to add downloadable content from RHN for disconnected Satellites in Satellite 6 to avoid this (the same as Satellite 5)?
Content-ISO's are still the same with Red Hat Satellite 6.2 release, which you can download from Red Hat Customer Portal 6.1 Content ISO Download Section
Nagoor,
This still doesn't offer RHEL incremental content ISOs (sorry, I should have clarified this in my above post)
Is the expectation that disconnected users will re-download all the content ISOs when an update is released?
Does the remote_execution feature only run from the master Satellite and not capsules ? It's not setup on my capsules post upgrade. Is this something that can be enabled via "satellite-installer" ?
Ditto for OpenSCAP....
Never mind found it:-
$ satellite-installer --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-openscap --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh -v
Well I take that back it doesn't work on capsules.....
Hi Paul,
By default external capsule installation wouldn't install these feature, they have to be enabled using the below command
Note : RHSCL repos should be enabled on the external capsule, otherwise it would fail with dependency errors.
After successful execution of the above command, external capsule would have an additional feature "SSH" listed under webUI >> Infrastructure >> Capsules >> Check Features against external Capsule
Thanks Nagoor,
Now to the horror of Dynamic partitions now working/rendering correctly.
hammer cli changes and SSL errors on provisioning tokens.