Patching RHEL 6.9 machines using Satellite 6
I just migrated few Red Hat 6.9 machines to the new Satellite server 6.2 and I have assigned these repositories 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (RPMs)' ( has 19,345+746 packages ) and 'Red Hat Satellite Tools 6.2 (for RHEL 6 Server) (RPMs)' ( has 145 packages ). However, when I run 'yum check-update', it doesn't display anything. Do I need to do anything here to apply patches?
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Guru
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When we joined our RHEL 6.current systems, we used activation keys with content views ascribed to the activation key. This made it much easier so that once the RHEL 6 systems were registered, they had the proper channels visible.
We're using satellite version 6.2 for this.
Now that was for disconnected satellites*. For a connected satellite, it ought to be relatively the same.
*A disconnected satellite is one that is not directly connected to Red Hat. We take the content view from our public facing satellite and de-duplicate the rpms (reduce from 1.4TB to 260GB) then bring it to the disconnected satellite and ingest, make the content views and re-publish the content view after ingest.
For a connected-to-Red Hat satellite, it ought to be easier.
Shisheer Guragain, after the systems are connected (like your case), you can go to the satellite web interface for the system and add channels manually as well. You can use subscription-manager to do this as well (command line). Sorry if I'm telling you information you already know. Yet, making the activation key in advance with the proper set of RHEL 6 channels for RHEL 6 systems (we call ours something like rhel6_server for the activation key) really helps.
Regards,
RJ
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