Chapter 2. Installing Satellite Server

1. Identify your Satellite subscription.

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   # subscription-manager list --available --matches 'Red Hat Satellite'

   This command performs a case-insensitive search of all available subscriptions' fields, including Subscription Name and Provides, matching any instances of Red Hat Satellite. Subscriptions are classified as available if they are not already attached to a system. The search string may also contain the wildcards ? or * to match a single character or zero or more characters, respectively. The wildcard characters may be escaped with a backslash to represent a literal question mark or asterisk. Likewise, to represent a backslash, it must be escaped with another backslash.

   If you are unable to find an available Satellite subscription, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase solution How do I figure out which subscriptions have been consumed by clients registered under Red Hat Subscription Manager? to run a script to allow you to see if your subscription is being consumed by another system.

   If the output is too long, pipe it into a pager utility, such as less or more, so that you can look over the output one screenful at a time.

   1. Regardless of which form of the subscription-manager command is run, the output should be similar to the following:

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      Subscription Name: Red Hat Satellite
      Provides:          Red Hat Satellite 6
                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
                         Red Hat Satellite
                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (for RHEL Server)
      SKU:               MCT0370
      Pool ID:           8a85f9874152663c0541943739717d11
      Available:         3
      Suggested:         1
      Service Level:     Premium
      Service Type:      L1-L3
      Multi-Entitlement: No
      Ends:              10/07/2014
      System Type:       Physical

2. Make a note of the Pool ID so that you can attach it to your Satellite host. Your Pool ID is different than the example provided.

3. To attach your subscription to your Satellite Server, enter the following command, using your Pool ID:

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   # subscription-manager attach --pool=pool_id

   The output should be similar to the following:

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   Successfully attached a subscription for: Red Hat Satellite

4. To verify that the subscriptions are successfully attached, enter the following command:

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   # subscription-manager list --consumed

   The outputs displays something similar to the following:

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   +-------------------------------------------+
      Consumed Subscriptions
   +-------------------------------------------+
   Subscription Name: Red Hat Satellite
   Provides:          Red Hat Satellite
                      Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
                      Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)
                      Red Hat Satellite
                      Red Hat Satellite 6
                      Red Hat Software Collections  (for RHEL Server)
                      Red Hat Satellite Capsule
                      Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (for RHEL Server)
                      Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle
                      Red Hat Satellite Capsule
                      Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server)
   SKU:               MCT0370
   Contract:          10293569
   Account:           5361051
   Serial:            1653856191250699363
   Pool ID:           8a85f9874152663c0541943739717d11
   Active:            True
   Quantity Used:     1
   Service Level:     Premium
   Service Type:      L1-L3
   Status Details:
   Starts:            10/08/2013
   Ends:              10/07/2014
   System Type:       Physical

1. Disable all existing repositories.

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   # subscription-manager repos --disable "*"

2. Enable the Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat Software Collections repositories.

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   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms \
   --enable=rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms \
   --enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-6.4-rpms \
   --enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-maintenance-6-rpms \
   --enable=rhel-7-server-ansible-2.6-rpms

   Note

   If you are installing Red Hat Satellite as a virtual machine hosted on Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), you also need to enable the Red Hat Common repository, and install RHV guest agents and drivers. For more information, see Installing the Guest Agents and Drivers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Virtual Machine Management Guide for more information.

3. Clear out any metadata left from any non-Red Hat yum repositories.

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   # yum clean all

4. Verify that the repositories have been enabled.

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   # yum repolist enabled

1. Update all packages:

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   # yum update

2. Install the Satellite Server packages:

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   # yum install satellite

Synchronizing Time using chronyd

1. Install chronyd.

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   # yum install chrony

2. Start and enable the chronyd service.

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   # systemctl start chronyd
   # systemctl enable chronyd

1. Open https://access.redhat.com/ in your browser and log in to the Red Hat account that you used to register the system to Red Hat Subscription Management.
2. Navigate to Subscriptions in the upper-left corner of the Customer Portal.
3. Navigate to Subscription Allocations.
4. Click Create New subscription allocation.
5. In the Name field, enter a name.
6. From the Type list, select the type and version that corresponds to your Satellite Server.
7. Click Create.

1. Navigate to Subscription Allocations.
2. Select the name of the subscription you want to change.
3. Click the Subscriptions tab.
4. Click Add Subscriptions.
5. A list of your Red Hat product subscriptions appears. Enter the Entitlement Quantity for each product.
6. Click Submit to complete the assignment.

For Web UI Users

1. Ensure the context is set to the organization you want to use.
2. Navigate to Content > Red Hat Subscriptions.
3. Click Manage Manifest to display the manifest page for the organization.
4. Click Choose file, select the Subscription Manifest, then click Upload.