Satellite installation

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Hi everyone,

  I have recently been building a 5.5 satellite to support my infrastructure in my work area.  My experience was that the procedure was straightforward and the docs(1) were complete.

 

One thing I did that wasn't documented I did was that before I started syncing channels was to sync a small channel first, by just doing a

# satellite-sync --list-channels and syncing a samll one.  Reboot then sync the rest .

 

My question to you is, other than the length of time it takes to initially sync channels, do you have any pain points with the installation procedure?  If so, what did you do, or what do you suggest we can do to mitigate them?   

 

I would hazard a guess that most 5.5 deployments are coming via upgrades from 5.4.1(2)  That discussion was  can be joined in on this thread(3) 

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Jim Lyle. RHCE

Technical Account Manager(TAM) 

 

 

 

(1) 5.5 Install guide

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/pdf/Installation_Guide/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.5-Installation_Guide-en-US.pdf

 

(2) 5.5 Upgrade guide

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-Installation_Guide-Upgrades-Procedure

(3) 5.5 upgrade discussion

https://access.redhat.com/discussion/upgrading-satellite-541-55

JL
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BN Active Contributor 182 points
16 November 2012 1:11 PM

 

Hi Jim,
Fortunately I've always had success with installations of Satellite. Just following documents available on the website of Red Hat.
Unfortunately, depending on the amount of channels that you will use, the sync process is belated.
So always carry the channels on an external disk and do so faster installation.
After that just do the update repository with Red Hat.
Unfortunately this option is only useful if the installation is local, because we need to share the external disk.
Cheers,
Bruno Lima
RHC{A,SS,DS,E,VA}
JL Red Hat Expert 945 points
16 November 2012 1:48 PM

Hi Bhuno,

  Thank you for the comment!  Yes, that is a good idea indeed.  I may rebuild my satellite using both methods and time it to see what kind of difference I get.

 

Thank you!

 

Jim

GA Community Member 37 points
16 May 2013 5:50 PM

Hello,

 

Following the documentation, I could not have the rhel6.4 running satellite 5.5, registered with the satellite itself.

I could install, I could sync, I could not register.

The OS is registered with RHN.

Is there is some "gap" in the sequence of actions documented?

BR

G.

David Powles's picture Red Hat 25369 points
17 May 2013 5:10 AM

Hi Georges,

Could you provide some more detail on where and how the documented process is failing? We can investigate and improve the documentation as required.

ir. Jan Gerrit Kootstra's picture Guru 6222 points
17 May 2013 11:13 AM

Hi George,

 

If I understand you correctly, you want to register the Satellite host to use a subscription of the Sattelite instead of a Red Hat Network subscription.

I do not know if this is possible, for the Satellite subscription is not attached directly to the Oracle database. It is attached to the server subscription of the host it is installed on.

It is not shown in the webgui as a separate item, but as a tab of the server subscription. So I am afraid it will allow seperation.

 

Kind regards,

 

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

PM Red Hat Guru 3594 points
17 May 2013 12:38 PM

I am interpreting that you are looking to register the satellite on the satellite itself so that you can fetch its OS updates locally instead of going over internet to RHN. And when you tried to register it, it said OS is registered with RHN. If this the case then please read further else you can ignore my comment.

  • If the system is already registered and if you try to register it using rhn_register or rhnreg_ks command it throws this message.
  • If you want to register the satellite to itself and fetch its OS updates locally whereas sync the channels from RHN Hosted then you need to follow the knowledgebase solution - How to setup a self-subscribed Red Hat Network Satellite server?

Let me know if this helps else I would like to have more details on what exactly you are trying to achive.

Paresh

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