How do I get RHEL 6, 7 or any RHEL content on my Red Hat Satellite Server?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4 or above

Issue

  • How do I get Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 (RHEL6, RHEL7) content on my Red Hat Satellite server?
  • How to add channel on Satellite ?

Resolution

  • RHEL6 content is only available for Red Hat Satellite v. 5.4 or greater.
  • RHEL7 content requires Red Hat Satellite version 5.6 or greater.

  • To gain access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux content on your Satellite server, you will need to generate or request a new Satellite certificate.

  • You will also need to run satellite-sync to get the new content. If no options are included, satellite-sync synchronizes all channels that already exist in the Satellite's database but not newly added channels.

    #satellite-sync --list-channels ( or -l option) ( lists the availble channels by label.)
#satellite-sync  --channel option (option requires the channel label, not its name. For instance, "rhel-i386-as-3" is a channel label.)

For the process on upgrading Red Hat Satellite to latest version please refer to this solution.

For more details on how to synchronize channel content on Red Hat Satellite you can refer to documentation on the Red Hat Satellite Synchronization Tool.

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