Chapter 6. Installing Satellite


Run the conversions toolkit to install Satellite on your RHEL machine.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Log in to the machine by using SSH.
  2. Switch to the root user.
  3. If the root has no password, set a password:

    # passwd
  4. Install the Satellite conversions toolkit:

    # dnf install satellite-convert2rhel-toolkit
  5. Install Satellite by running the following command:

    # satellite-convert2rhel-toolkit install

    Upon a successful installation, the script prints the following message: Satellite has been successfully installed.

  6. Configure your DNS records to the Satellite hostname, for example in /etc/hosts. Satellite is installed with the satellite.internal hostname.
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