Chapter 9. Converting Hosts

Procedure

1. Run pre-conversion analysis on your hosts.

   1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Monitor > Jobs.
   2. Click Run Job.
   3. In the Job category, select Convert 2 RHEL.
   4. In the Job template, select Convert2RHEL analyze.
   5. Click Next.
   6. In the target hosts filter, select Host groups and select the CentOS 7 converting host group.
   7. Click Run on selected hosts.
   8. Satellite displays the job invocation page.
   9. Click the name of a host to review the output of the job invocation. For more information, see Reviewing the pre-conversion analysis report in Converting from an RPM-based Linux distribution to RHEL.
   10. Resolve all issues that are blocking the conversions. You can use remote execution in Satellite to resolve configuration issues. For more information, see Executing a Remote Job in Managing Hosts.

   Repeat this step until you resolve all blocking issues.

2. Run conversion on your hosts.

   1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Monitor > Jobs.
   2. Click Run Job.
   3. In the Job category, select Convert 2 RHEL.
   4. In the Job template, select Convert to RHEL.
   5. Click Next.
   6. In the target hosts filter, select Host groups and select the CentOS 7 converting host group.
   7. In the Restart field, select yes.
   8. In the Activation Key field, select the convert2rhel_rhel7 activation key.
   9. Click Run on selected hosts.

Verification

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Review the values in the OS column. The converted hosts appear with a RHEL 7.x value.