Satellite installation

Hi everyone,

  I have recently been building a 5.5 satellite to support my infrastructure in my work area.  My experience was that the procedure was straightforward and the docs(1) were complete.

One thing I did that wasn't documented I did was that before I started syncing channels was to sync a small channel first, by just doing a

# satellite-sync --list-channels and syncing a samll one.  Reboot then sync the rest .

My question to you is, other than the length of time it takes to initially sync channels, do you have any pain points with the installation procedure?  If so, what did you do, or what do you suggest we can do to mitigate them?   

I would hazard a guess that most 5.5 deployments are coming via upgrades from 5.4.1(2)  That discussion was  can be joined in on this thread(3) 

Kind Regards,

Jim Lyle. RHCE

Technical Account Manager(TAM) 

(1) 5.5 Install guide

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/pdf/Installation_Guide/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.5-Installation_Guide-en-US.pdf

(2) 5.5 Upgrade guide

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-Installation_Guide-Upgrades-Procedure

(3) 5.5 upgrade discussion

https://access.redhat.com/discussion/upgrading-satellite-541-55