Chapter 1. Reviewing hosts in Satellite web UI

In the Satellite web UI, you can browse all hosts recognized by Satellite, grouped by type.

The following host types are available when browsing hosts in the Satellite web UI:

You can select what columns you want to see in the host table on the Hosts > All Hosts page.

With Satellite, you can monitor the lifecycle status of your hosts by displaying upcoming End of Support (EOS) events. This is useful so that you can quickly identify which hosts require an update or action to maintain support.

Satellite provides multiple mechanisms to display information about upcoming EOS events for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts:

For any hosts that are not running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Satellite displays Unknown in the RHEL Lifecycle status and Last report columns.

When either the end of maintenance support or the end of extended lifecycle support approaches in a year, you will see a notification banner in the Satellite web UI if you have hosts with that Red Hat Enterprise Linux version. The notification provides information about the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version, the number of hosts running that version in your environment, the lifecycle support, and the expiration date. Along with other information, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle column is visible in the notification.

You can display the status of the end of support (EOS) for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts in the table on the Hosts index page.

You can use the host global status in Satellite to see at a glance whether a host is OK, needs attention (Warning), or has errors. The status appears on the Hosts Overview page and helps you prioritize which hosts to investigate.

The host global status can have one of three possible values: OK, Warning, or Error. You can find global status on the Hosts Overview page. The status displays a small icon next to the host name and has a color that corresponds with the status. Hovering over the icon renders a tooltip with sub-status information to quickly find out more details. To view the global status for a host, in the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

If you want to search for hosts according to their status, use the syntax for searching in Satellite that is outlined in the Searching and Bookmarking in Administering Red Hat Satellite, and then build your searches out by using the following status-related examples:

To search for hosts that have an OK status:

global_status = ok

To search for all hosts that deserve attention:

global_status = error or global_status = warning

You can use host sub-statuses in Satellite to see the status of specific areas of a host, such as configuration, build, or content. Sub-statuses feed into the global host status and help you pinpoint what needs attention.

To view the sub-statuses of a host, in the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts and click on the host whose full status you want to inspect. You can view the global host status next to the name of the host and the host sub-statuses on the Host status card.

Each sub-status has its own set of possible values that are mapped to the three global status values. With any change of a sub-status, the global status is recalculated and the result is determined by the statuses of all sub-statuses.

The following sub-statuses are available in Satellite:

If you want to search for hosts according to their sub-status, use the syntax for searching in Satellite that is outlined in the Searching and Bookmarking chapter of the Administering Satellite guide, and then build your searches out by using the following status-related examples:

You search for hosts' configuration sub-statuses based on their last reported state.

For example, to find hosts that have at least one pending resource:

status.pending > 0

To find hosts that restarted some service during last run:

status.restarted > 0

To find hosts that have an interesting last run that might indicate something has happened:

status.interesting = true