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RED HAT SATELLITE HIGHLIGHTS
What Is Satellite?
Satellite is an on-premise alternative to trying to download all of your content from the Red Hat content delivery network or managing your subscriptions through the Customer Portal. From a performance side, it reduces hits to your network bandwidth because local systems can download everything they need locally; from a security side, it can limit the risks of malicious content or access, even enabling entirely disconnected environments.
Satellite is composed of a centralized Satellite Server. Depending on your data center setup, organization design, and geographic locations, you can have local Capsule Servers, which are proxies that locally manage content and obtain subscription, registration, and content from the central Satellite Server.
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Get Started with Red Hat Satellite 6.2
For a basic server installation, you'll need:
Instructions
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Find the subscription pool to use.
# subscription-manager list --available --all +-------------------------------------------+ Available Subscriptions +-------------------------------------------+ ProductName: Red Hat Satellite ProductId: xxxxxxx PoolId: xxxxx Quantity: 10 Multi-Wntitlement: No Expires: 08/20/2019 MachineType: physical -
Attach the subscription.
Use the PoolId from the list command.
# subscription-manager attach --pool=xxxxx -
Configure the repositories.
Disable the default repositories to prevent conflicts, and then enable the specific Satellite 6 and RHEL repositories. This example uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.# subscription-manager repos --disable "*" # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-rpms --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms --enable rhel-6-server-satellite-6.2-rpms -
Install the Satellite packages.
# yum install satellite -
Run the Satellite installer.
There are a lot of different available configuration options with the Satellite installer command, depending on how you want to configure your environment. For more information, see the Installation Guide.
# satellite-installer --scenario satellite -
Open the UI.
The Satellite UI is available by opening the server's hostname in a web browser. Unless something else was specified during installation, the default username is admin.
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An overview of Satellite
Installation & configuration
Installing and Configuring Satellite 6
This video demonstrates how to install satellite from the command line, including the katello installer, puppet configuration, testing, installing Satellite 6 with DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and advanced installation options.
Content management
Synchronizing Content
This third video in the series covers getting and updating a subscription manifest, enabling and syncing repositories, and additional things to note about synchronizing content.
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Provisioning & lifecycle management
Creating an Application Lifecycle
In the fourth video in this series, Dan Macpherson discusses the application lifecycle, including custom content views and performing an errata content search.
System management
Transitioning from 5 to 6
Planning Your Satellite 5 to 6 Migration
Walk through potential transition workflows and better understand how to migrate your environment.
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