Chapter 3. Managing host content settings and system purpose

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. On the Overview tab, click Edit on the System purpose card.
4. Select the system purpose attributes for your host.
5. Click Save.

Procedure

1. Log in to the host and edit the required system purpose attributes. For example, set the usage type to Production and the role to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. For the list of values, see Configuring System Purpose using the subscription-manager command-line tool in Automatically installing RHEL 8.

   # subscription-manager syspurpose set usage 'Production'
   # subscription-manager syspurpose set role 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server'

2. Verify the system purpose attributes for this host:

   # subscription-manager syspurpose

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select the Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts that you want to edit.
3. Click the main menu icon and select Manage content > System purpose.

4. Select the system purpose attributes that you want to assign to the selected hosts. You can select one of the following values:

   • A specific attribute to set an all selected hosts.
   • No Change to keep the attribute set on the selected hosts.
   • (unset) to clear the attribute on the selected hosts.
5. Click Save.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. Click the Content tab, then click the Module streams tab.
4. Click the vertical ellipsis next to the module and select the action you want to perform. You get a REX job notification once the remote execution job is complete.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts and select a host.
2. Select the Content tab, then select Repository sets.
3. From the dropdown, you can filter the Repository type column to Custom.
4. Select the desired number of repositories or click the Select All checkbox to select all repositories, then click the vertical ellipsis, and select Override to Enabled.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. Click the vertical ellipsis icon next to the Edit button and select Change content source.
4. Select Content Source, Lifecycle Content View, and Content Source from the lists.

5. Click Change content source.

   Note

   Some lifecycle environments can be unavailable for selection if they are not synced on the selected content source. For more information, see Adding lifecycle environments to Capsule Servers in Managing content.

6. You can complete the content source change by using remote execution or manually.

   To update configuration on host using remote execution, click Run job invocation. For more information about running remote execution jobs, see Configuring and setting up remote jobs in Managing hosts.

   To update the content source manually, execute the autogenerated commands from Change content source on the host.