Chapter 6. Reference
The following topic are related to the configuration, creation, and management of Insights remediation playbooks.
6.1. Installing the Insights client on Satellite Server content hosts
The Insights client comes preinstalled on most versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux; however, if you have to install it, use this procedure to install the Insights client on each system.
Prerequisites
Register your hosts to Satellite
If you already have Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, you can use the Global Registration Template to register them to Satellite. For more information, see Registering hosts to Satellite.
Procedure
Install the Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux client:
# yum install insights-client
Register the host to Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
# insights-client --register
- Repeat these steps on each host.
Alternatively, you can use the RedHatInsights.insights-client Ansible role to install the Insights client and register the hosts. For more information, see Using Red Hat Insights with Hosts in Satellite in the Red Hat Satellite Managing Hosts guide.
6.2. Configuring Cloud Connector after upgrading Satellite Server 6.10 to 6.11
This only applies to upgrades from Satellite version 6.10 to 6.11. Refer to the Upgrading and Updating Red Hat Satellite guide for more information.
To configure Cloud Connector after upgrading the Satellite Server, click Configure Cloud Connector button from Configure > RH Cloud - Inventory Upload to enable it on the new version of Satellite Server. Simultaneously, you are required to remove the previous source from the cloud manually on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console after upgrading your Satellite Server.
Once the Cloud Connector is configured, it will remove the receptor bits and install the RHC bits. At the same time, the Cloud Connector announces all the organizations in the Satellite to the source and is ready to receive the connections.
6.3. Disabling direct remediations on a Satellite Server content host
By default the parameter is not set on each host. It is True for the hostgroup to allow the execution of playbooks by default on the Cloud Connector. Note that all the hosts that are present in that particular organization inherit the same parameters.
When the Satellite receives the remediation playbook run request from Cloud Connector, that request has a list of hosts where it should execute.
Complete the following step to ensure the playbook run does not get invoked from the cloud on a single host.
Procedure
- Go to Hosts menu > All Hosts in the Satellite web UI.
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Locate the host and click the Edit button > Parameters tab and set the
enable_cloud_remediationsparameter to False on that host.
6.4. Disabling direct remediation on a Satellite Server content host group
By default the parameter is not set in the system. It is True for the host group to allow the execution of playbooks by default with the Cloud Connector.
All the hosts that are present in that particular organization will inherit the same parameters.
Optionally, an Organization Administrator can disable the cloud remediations for the whole organization or host group. To disable remediations, change the Global Parameter in the Red Hat Satellite User Interface. Use the following steps to make this edit.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Satellite Dashboard.
- Click Configure on the left navigation.
- Click Global Parameters.
- Click Create Parameter.
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In the Name field, enter
enable_cloud_remediations. -
In the Value field, enter
false. - Click Submit.
Verification step
Find your new parameter listed in the Global Parameters table.
