15.3. Installing a Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server
The Capsule Server must be registered to the Red Hat Satellite Server to use the Red Hat Satellite Server products and subscriptions:
- Install the Red Hat Satellite Server's CA certificate in the Capsule Server:
# rpm -Uvh http://satellite.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
- Register the Capsule Server under your chosen organization's name:
# subscription-manager register --org "your organization"
Procedure 15.1. To Install a Satellite Capsule Server on a Certificate-managed System:
- List all the available subscriptions to find the correct Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Enterprise Linux product to allocate to your system:
# subscription-manager list --available --all
The screen displays:+-------------------------------------------+ Available Subscriptions +-------------------------------------------+ ProductName: Red Hat Satellite ProductId: SKU123456 PoolId: e1730d1f4eaa448397bfd30c8c7f3d334bd8b Quantity: 10 Multi-Entitlement: No Expires: 08/20/2013 MachineType: physical
Note
The SKU and Pool ID depend on the Red Hat Satellite product type that corresponds to your system version and product type. - Subscribe to the pool using the following command:
# subscription-manager subscribe --pool=Red_Hat_Satellite_Pool_Id # subscription-manager subscribe --pool=Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_Pool_Id # subscription-manager subscribe --pool=Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_Software_Collections_Pool_Id
- Disable all existing repositories:
# subscription-manager repos --disable "*"
- Enable the Satellite and Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories by running
subscription-manager
. You might need to alter the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository to match the specific version you are using.# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-rpms \ --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms \ --enable rhel-6-server-satellite-capsule-6.0-rpms
- Install the katello-installer and cyrus-sasl-plain packages using the
yum install
command as the root user:# yum install katello-installer cyrus-sasl-plain
The katello-installer provides thecapsule-installer
functionality while cyrus-sasl-plain is required for pulp.
The Satellite Capsule Server is installed on your host system. The Satellite Capsule Server must be configured before it can be used.