8.7.2. Prerequisites

When using enhanced reporting, there are some additional system requirements:
  • A dedicated Subscription Asset Manager instance specifically for Satellite reporting.

    Warning

    A Subscription Asset Manager instance used for enhanced reporting can only be used as a reporting server for Satellite. It cannot be used as a regular Subscription Asset Manager instance to manage systems or data could be lost.
  • All of the prerequisites in Section 2.1, “Prerequisites”.
  • The crond service must be running.
  • An additional 4 GB of disk space must be available for the reporting database journal.
  • Additional packages for the reporting server
    • splice
    • ruby193-rubygem-splice_reports
    • spacewalk-splice-tool