3.7.9. Transitioning System Profiles to Content Hosts

Red Hat Satellite 5 uses System Profiles to store information about the systems (machines) that are registered to it. This includes the operating system version and a list of all packages that are installed on each system. This applies to both bare-metal and virtual machines.
In Satellite 6, this information is stored in Content Hosts. Instead of "system", Satellite 6 uses the term "host" to refer to any machine that is registered to it. Part of the transition process maps Satellite 5 System Profiles to Satellite 6 Content Hosts. A Satellite 6 host is created when an actual system re-registers to Satellite 6 with the consumer ID of the Content Host.
Transitioning system profiles is the last step in the transition process prior to actually transitioning your Satellite 5 systems to Satellite 6. You can transition system profiles as part of the hammer import all command, or by specifically importing them, using the hammer import all --entities content-host command.
Building the System Profile Transition RPM File

Before you can transition your Satellite 5 systems to Satellite 6, you need to build the required RPM file. The hammer import all command displays instructions on how to do this, tailored to your specific environment, after you have successfully transitioned system profiles to content hosts.

After you have successfully transitioned your system profiles to content hosts, you should see output similar to the following:

Example 3.14. Example Instructions for Building a System Profile Transition RPM File

To build the system-profile-transition rpm, run:

cd /root/rpm-working-dir/SPECS &&
	rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir /root/rpm-working-dir" system-profile-transition-myhost.example.com-1410140956-0.0.1.spec

Then find your system-profile-transition-myhost.example.com-1410140956 package in /root/rpm-working-dir/RPMS/noarch/ directory.
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