Red Hat Satellite Capsule Serve - pre-installation question

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Hello,

my client buy licence of Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server. i want to install it on RHEL 6.7.

My client doesn't have Red Hat Satellite. We want to deploy fresh installation.

Do you think i can installe Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server directly without have Red Hat Satellite ? if i ask you that because i read on several article "Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server need Red Hat Satellite :o"

Thx for help

sa
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Rich Jerrido's picture Red Hat Guru 2300 points
22 March 2016 10:35 AM

Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server functions to scale out a Red Hat Satellite installation. I cannot be deployed standalone (i.e., without a Satellite Server)

sa Newbie 15 points
22 March 2016 3:01 PM

My client have only Red Hat Satellite Capsule Licence. can i installe REd Hat Satellite with his Capsule's licence ?

Best regards

sa Newbie 15 points
22 March 2016 12:51 PM

Thank you very mutch for your fast answer.

My client have only Red Hat Satellite Capsule Licence. can i installe REd Hat Satellite with his Capsule's licence ?

Best regards

ir. Jan Gerrit Kootstra's picture Guru 6217 points
22 March 2016 3:29 PM

All,

Based on the quote from the installation manual of RH Satellite 6.1:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/6.1/html/Installation_Guide/chap-Red_Hat_Satellite-Installation_Guide-Installing_Red_Hat_Satellite_Capsule_Server.html#sect-Red_Hat_Satellite-Installation_Guide-Installing_Red_Hat_Satellite_Capsule_Server-Red_Hat_Satellite_Capsule_Server_Scalability The Satellite Capsule Server is a means to scale out the Satellite installation. Organizations can create various capsules in different geographical locations where the data centers are located. These are centrally managed through the Satellite Server. When a Satellite user promotes content to the production environment, the Satellite Server will push the content from the Satellite Server to each of the Satellite Capsule Servers. Host systems pull content and configuration from the Satellite Capsule Servers in their location and not from the central Satellite Server.

I can only conclude that a Capsule is an add-on to a RH Satellite server environment, so a standalone object. This in contrast to the Red Hat Proxy 5.x which could also be configured to connect to RHN without a RH Satellite.

If you are still in need of extra information, please create a support case via https://access.redhat.com

Kind regards,

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

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