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3.7.10. Transitioning Systems
This section covers background information, prerequisites, and assumptions that must be addressed prior to transitioning your client systems. It also covers the actual process for transitioning your Satellite 5 client systems to Satellite 6 client hosts. This process is primarily aimed at customers who have numerous systems currently registered to a Satellite 5 server.
The system transition process aims to achieve the following goals:
- Ensure that each Satellite 5 client is registered to a new Satellite 6 instance, with as much of the existing Satellite 5 setup maintained as possible.
- Help customers stay in compliance with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux usage. The process removes the Satellite 5 entitlements used by a given system when that system is registered to Satellite 6.
3.7.10.1. Prerequisites
Before you begin the system transition process, ensure that you have each of the following:
- An existing, up-to-date Satellite 5.6 server. In this example, this system is called "SAT5.6".
- An existing, up-to-date Red Hat Enterprise Linux client systems registered to SAT5.6.
- An existing, up-to-date Satellite 6 server. In this example, this system is called "SAT6".
- Manifests created for each Organization on SAT5.6, downloaded to username@SAT6:/tmp/manifests, and renamed to
ORG_NAME.zip, to match the names of your organizations.
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