RHEA-2017:1560 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

This is the upgrade component to the Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0 General Availability release.

Description

Red Hat 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. Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0 may be upgraded from earlier
releases.

The upgrade documentation for Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0 specifically covers:

• Upgrading the Red Hat Satellite to version 5.8 and upgrading the underlying

operating system.

• Upgrading the Red Hat Satellite to version 5.8 without upgrading the

underlying operating system.

Users of Red Hat 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.7 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.5 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.5 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.5 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• 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 5 Managed DB 5.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.7 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 5 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1393921 - Satellite 5.8.0 Upgrade Bugs - Tracking Bug

CVEs

(none)

References

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