Chapter 2. Hammer cheat sheet
Hammer is a command-line tool provided with Red Hat Satellite 6. You can use Hammer to configure and manage a Red Hat Satellite Server by using either CLI commands or shell script automation. The following cheat sheet provides a condensed overview of essential Hammer commands.
2.1. General information Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Display hammer commands and options, append after a subcommand to get more information |
| org |
The setting is organization-specific, append
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| loc |
The setting is location-specific, append
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Note: This cheat sheet assumes saved credentials in ~/.hammer/cli_config.yml. For more information, see Section 1.2, “Authentication”.
2.2. Organizations, locations, and repositories Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Create an organization:
List organizations:
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| See the options for organization |
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| Upload a subscription manifest:
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| Enable a repository:
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| Synchronize a repository:
Create a custom repository:
Upload content to a custom repository:
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2.3. Content life cycles Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Create a life cycle environment:
List life cycle environments:
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| Create a content view:
Add repositories to a content view:
Add Puppet modules to a content view:
Publishing a content view:
Promoting a content view:
Incremental update of a content view:
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2.4. Provisioning environments Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Create a domain:
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| Add a subnet:
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| Create a compute resource:
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| Add an installation medium:
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| Add a partition table:
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| Add a provisioning template:
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| Add an operating system:
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2.5. Activation keys Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Create an activation key:
Add a subscription to the activation key:
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2.6. Users and permissions Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Create a user:
Add a role to a user:
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| Create a user group:
Add a role to a user group:
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| Create a role:
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| Create a filter and add it to a role:
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2.7. Errata Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| List errata:
Find erratum by CVE:
Inspect erratum:
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| List errata applicable to a host:
Apply errata to a host:
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2.8. Hosts Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| Create a host group:
Add an activation key to a host group:
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| Create a host (inheriting parameters from a host group):
Remove the host from host group:
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| Add a job template for remote execution:
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| Invoke a remote job:
Monitor the remote job:
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2.9. Tasks Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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| List all tasks:
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