Chapter 6. Provisioning Hosts
This chapter describes how to provision a new host using the Red Hat Satellite Server. The preceding chapters worked through installing and configuring everything that is required for provisioning; ensure that you have successfully completed all of the tasks in those chapters before you attempt to provision hosts.
Satellite provides two main approaches to provisioning hosts: PXE booting, which requires DHCP and TFTP services; and boot disk provisioning, which provides host provisioning when PXE services are not available.
6.1. Provisioning a Host Using PXE
The following procedure describes how to provision a host from your Satellite 6 Server.
Procedure 6.1. To Provision a Host:
- On the main menu, click
to open the New Host page. - On the Host tab, complete the following values:
- Name: Choose a suitable name for your host. For example,
host1.example.org. - Host Group: Select RHEL6Server-x86_64
Note
New hosts inherit the default values configured for the host group. This means you can quickly build a host without reentering those values. - Content Source: The $FQDN of your Satellite. This is automatically selected based on the Host Group.
- On the Network tab, complete the following values:
- MAC Address: The MAC address of the new host. The Satellite server reserves a DHCP address using this value. Ensure you enter it correctly.
- Subnet:
Provisioning_NetThis value is automatically populated. - IP Address: This value is automatically populated.
Do not make any changes to the Puppet Classes, Operating System, Parameters, or Additional Information tabs. - Click .
- Power on your host (either physical host or virtual machine); it will PXE-boot and begin its installation process.
See https://access.redhat.com/articles/1169613 for more information.
