RHEA-2012:1298 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

This is the upgrade component to the RHN Satellite Server 5.5.0 General
Availability release.

Description

Red Hat Network Satellite provides a solution to organizations requiring
absolute control over and privacy of the maintenance and package deployment of
their servers. It allows organizations to utilize the benefits of Red Hat
Network (RHN) without having to provide public Internet access to their servers
or other client systems. RHN Satellite 5.5.0 may be upgraded from earlier
releases of the RHN Satellite product.

The upgrade documentation for RHN Satellite 5.5.0 specifically covers:

• All steps that must be executed prior to the upgrade.
• Upgrade of RHN Satellite with upgrade of underlying operating system.
• Upgrade of RHN Satellite on existing operating system.
• Basic validation procedure for upgraded RHN Satellite.

Users of Red Hat Network Satellite are advised to upgrade to this newly released
version.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 i386
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.3 i386
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.2 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 819025 - Satellite 5.5.0 Upgrades Tracking Bug

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)