How to enable or disable disconnected mode on the RedHat Satellite 6?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.

Issue

  • Subscriptions page in the RedHat Satellite GUI shows failure to open a TCP connection to subscription.rhsm.redhat.com.
  • How to enable disconnected mode on the RedHat Satellite Server?
  • How to disable disconnected mode on the RedHat Satellite Server?

Resolution

  • For Red Hat Satellite 6.11 and above versions, Disable the subscription connection.

  • There are 2 ways to enable disconnected mode, via RedHat Satellite GUI or using hammer CLI

  • From GUI

Navigate to Administer > Settings > Content tab > Set the Disconnected mode value to Yes.
  • To do the same using hammer CLI, run the command:
# hammer settings set --name content_disconnected --value true

  • There are 2 ways to disable disconnected mode, via RedHat Satellite GUI or using hammer CLI

  • From GUI

Navigate to Administer > Settings > Content tab >  Set the Disconnected mode value to No.
  • To do the same using hammer CLI, run the command:
# hammer settings set --name content_disconnected --value false

Root Cause

When the disconnected mode is enabled, RedHat Satellite Server does not access the Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN).

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