Chapter 1. Introduction

This document explains how Red Hat Satellite 6 can support a rigid patching lifecycle for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

This document explains how to perform in Satellite 6 patching procedures that are similar to the patching procedures defined in Rich Jerrido’s Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Errata Management Guide. In that guide, the command spacewalk-clone-by-date was the primary mechanism by which a patching schedule was defined. Satellite 6 has no such command and instead uses hammer. This guide explains how to use hammer to define a Content View that performs the same function as spacewalk-clone-by-date.