Disconnected Satellite 6.2, importing ISOs

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Hello,

I have installed Satellite, and am trying to import the EUS content ISOs.
I've generated the manifest, and imported it - which has generated a Satellite subscription.

This satellite subscription is not assigned to anything, after a few minutes goes by one of the VMs I have registered to Satellite randomly picks up the subscription using auto-attach, even though it's not assigned to any subscription key..

I have downloaded the EUS ISOs for RHEL6.7, and extracted them into an apache webserver (browsing to http://webhost.domain.com/extracted/ shows me "content" and "listing").

I've altered the CDN to point to this (http://webhost.domain.com/extracted/) and yet going into "redhat subscriptions", all of the areas come back saying to check the subscriptions have been imported correctly.

In my apache logs it seems to be trying to access "/extracted/content/dist" and that's it.

What am I missing here?
Shouldn't the subscription be "attached" somehow to the Satellite server?
Thanks for any help.

--
Paul

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Hello, the subscriptions in the manifest will become attached to the clients, not Satellite Server. Are you following one of the guides? For example, Importing Content ISOs into a Disconnected Satellite in the Red Hat Satellite 6.2 Content Management Guide?

Thanks Stephen.

Yes that's exactly what I'm following. I've extracted the EUS ISOs, they are visible (as described above) and I've changed the CDN to point to the correct location. I've even tried using the Satellite server as the HTTP server as described in the guide, and using "http://hostname.domain.com/pub/sat-import"

Still, no matter what, looking at the apache logs it is trying to access /pub/sat-import/content/dist - which doesn't exist. I don't see any meaningful errors in the Satellite logs to help diagnose what it's trying to do under the covers.

OK - so I've performed a "mv eus dist", and that has allowed Satellite to pick up the packages now. Not sure why I have had to do that, since the "listing" file clearly contains "eus" in it.

At least I don't have to create my own products and import them that way!

OK - I've now found the EUS entry under the "other" tab. I must have been blind yesterday and not seen it.

OK, that wasn't 100% right. The Software Collections EUS only imports the "rhcsl" directory underneath (~7500 packages). The other ~28000 packages which come as part of the EUS ISOs aren't imported at all, so I will probably need to rename the directory to "dist" and import the products I can through that.

There is a Red Hat Knowledgebase solution on this topics How can I use EUS subscriptions with Red Hat Satellite 6 clients, but it does not mention the "other" tab.

Thanks again Stephen,

The manifest I had created missed the base redhat subscription - it only had the satellite one. That's where I was going wrong.

Once the manifest was regenerated with the correct subscriptions, the correct list came up in the "redhat subscriptions" section and I could import the packages correctly.

As always, the error is between the keyboard and the seat (due to a lack of experience and training).

-- Paul Sanders

Thank you for letting me, and others, know the outcome.

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