How to configure Satellite-6 to behave like RHN to content-host?

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We are in the beginning stages to deploy satellite 6.1.10. Out of our server population, we have numerous hosts that always want to see the latest RHEL updates.....just like if you registered a host directly to RHN. We are trying to do this with the least labor on our part in Satellite v6.

Doing this in Satellite 6, we thought we could do this by simply registering a content host against a key that contains the "Library" environment, and the required content-view. We believed we only needed to publish the CV once into the Library, and all the content hosts would continuously see updates in the Library. It turns out we are wrong. It seems that a CV needs to be published to a new version (from the latest sync data) into the Library for the new content to be visible.

In other words, if we were to get the same benefits that RHN provides, we would have to assume this work, and publish on a daily basis. This means we have to either do it manually, or do it via cron daily using hammer.

is there an easier, less labor-intensive way to do this?

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