Enabling Satellite with RHEL Developers Licence

Hello Dominic,

For a Satellite server only a Satellite subscription is needed to run it. It comes with an "embbeded" RHEL server subscription.

Still contact the regional sales team to see which Satellite subscriptions fits your needs, there are 2 types:

MCT0370 the "full product"

MCT1650 supports "50 clients"

Regards,

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

Dominic, just wanting to understand here, was it your goal to attempt to attach a client system that has a Red Hat Developer's entitlement (a client server) to a Red Hat Satellite server? You're not attempting to run Red Hat Satellite server on a system registered with a developer's license, correct?

If you have a Red Hat Server (that is not a satellite server) with a developer's license, that you wish to connect to a Red Hat Satellite server that has it's own proper entitlement, you can create a manifest file using the Red Hat satellite certificate tool https://access.redhat.com/management/distributors (select satellite from the available tabs at that link) and include your Red Hat Developer's License as part of the manifest.

If you need a temporary use Satellite, you can contact your sales team, explain your situation to them, and (at least my sales team) they ought to work with you for a temporary use trial of Red Hat Satellite.

Kind Regards, -RJ

Chris, as explained by RJ you will need to sort out a trial with the sales team... Another route would be to deploy the upstream version of satellite: 'foreman'.

HTH

Hi RJ,

I just checked: Satellite is not in the "standard Developers subscription"

Regards,

Jan Gerrit

The new developer subscription for companies has a satellite option, but you'll need to contact Red Hat and sign the appropriate documentation. This is a new offering that I recently found out about, and it allows you to create a satellite for your development environment under the rules of the agreement.

It didn't work for me either, same error. I installed foreman instead.

4 cores, 16 GB RAM and 100GB disk

useradd techmate (replace the username according to your env) vi /etc/sodoers.d/techmate

techmate ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

sudo vi /etc/hosts

00.00.00.00 foremanXX.domain foremanXX

sudo subscription-manager register sudo dnf update -y

1.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Disable all repositories:

sudo subscription-manager repos --disable "*"

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms \ --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

sudo dnf clean all

sudo dnf install https://yum.theforeman.org/releases/3.8/el8/x86_64/foreman-release.rpm

sudo dnf install https://yum.theforeman.org/katello/4.10/katello/el8/x86_64/katello-repos-latest.rpm

sudo dnf install https://yum.puppet.com/puppet7-release-el-8.noarch.rpm

sudo dnf module enable katello:el8 pulpcore:el8

Enablement of the module katello:el8 warns about a conflict with postgresql:10 and ruby:2.5 as these modules are set to the default module versions on Enterprise Linux 8. The module katello:el8 has a dependency for the modules postgresql:12 and ruby:2.7 that will be enabled with the katello:el8 module. These warnings do not cause installation process failure, hence can be ignored safely.

2. Installing Foreman server Packages Procedure Update all packages:

sudo dnf update -y

sudo dnf install -y foreman-installer-katello

3. Running the Installer The installation run is non-interactive, but the configuration can be customized by supplying any of the options listed in foreman-installer --help, or by running foreman-installer -i for interactive mode. More examples are given in the Installation Options section. Adding -v will disable the progress bar and display all changes.

sudo foreman-installer --scenario katello

When the installer has completed, details will be printed about where to find Foreman and the Smart Proxy.

[techmate@foreman01 ~]$ sudo foreman-installer --scenario katello

2023-09-18 20:40:19 [NOTICE] [root] Loading installer configuration. This will take some time. 2023-09-18 20:40:23 [NOTICE] [root] Running installer with log based terminal output at level NOTICE. 2023-09-18 20:40:23 [NOTICE] [root] Use -l to set the terminal output log level to ERROR, WARN, NOTICE, INFO, or DEBUG. See --full-help for definitions. 2023-09-18 20:43:27 [NOTICE] [configure] Starting system configuration.

2023-09-18 20:46:26 [NOTICE] [configure] 250 configuration steps out of 1409 steps complete. 2023-09-18 20:47:16 [NOTICE] [configure] 500 configuration steps out of 1411 steps complete. 2023-09-18 20:49:11 [NOTICE] [configure] 750 configuration steps out of 1415 steps complete. 2023-09-18 20:49:20 [NOTICE] [configure] 1000 configuration steps out of 1439 steps complete. 2023-09-18 20:51:19 [NOTICE] [configure] 1250 configuration steps out of 1439 steps complete. 2023-09-18 20:54:10 [NOTICE] [configure] System configuration has finished.

Upgrade Step 2/10: katello:clean_backend_objects. This may take a long while. 0 orphaned consumer id(s) found in candlepin.

Upgrade Step 3/10: katello:upgrades:4.0:remove_ostree_puppet_content. ============================================= Upgrade Step 4/10: katello:upgrades:4.1:sync_noarch_content. ============================================= Upgrade Step 5/10: katello:upgrades:4.1:fix_invalid_pools. I, [2023-09-18T20:54:18.824160 #15904] INFO -- : Corrected 0 invalid pools

Upgrade Step 6/10: katello:upgrades:4.1:reupdate_content_import_export_perms. ============================================= Upgrade Step 7/10: katello:upgrades:4.2:remove_checksum_values. ============================================= Upgrade Step 8/10: katello:upgrades:4.4:publish_import_cvvs. ============================================= Upgrade Step 9/10: katello:upgrades:4.8:fix_incorrect_providers. Fixing incorrect providers Fixed 0 incorrect providers Cleaning Candlepin orphaned custom products for organization Default Organization

Upgrade Step 10/10: katello:upgrades:4.8:regenerate_imported_repository_metadata. No repositories found for regeneration. Success! * Foreman is running at https://foremanXX.tech-mate.io Initial credentials are admin / ***************** * To install an additional Foreman proxy on separate machine continue by running:

foreman-proxy-certs-generate --foreman-proxy-fqdn "$FOREMAN_PROXY" --certs-tar "/root/$FOREMAN_PROXY-certs.tar"

• Foreman Proxy is running at https://foremanXX.tech-mate.io:9090

  The full log is at /var/log/foreman-installer/katello.log

sudo curl --insecure --output katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm https://foremanXX.tech-mate.io/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm

sudo yum localinstall katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm -y

sudo subscription-manager register --org="Default_Organization" --activationkey="TECH-MATE"

UPDATE:

I called Red Hat Customer Support regarding this, because I HAVE Red Hat Satellite as a result of purchasing "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite". I believe I had to call Red Hat sales to purchase this, because I can't find it in the Red Hat Store. However, when I spoke with Red Hat today, they verified that my Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite that I purchased includes Red Hat Satellite. I did find this source showing Red Hat Satellite within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite

Regards,
RJ

Alper Aykut - I think it was $99 USD... I can't remember exactly. I believe you may have to contact Red Hat Sales. I do see 50 entitlements I can add to that. Please note, verify with Red Hat if you are or are not using this for production. The Red Hat Developer Suite is not intended for production.

IMPORTANT This is the link for Red Hat Linux Developer Suite, Satellite is included (even if not listed at that link), see the last link here, or call Red Hat Sales or Customer Service - I confirmed it with them today. And also see this link here where it is shown to have satellite. You may have to contact Red Hat sales.

Regards,
RJ