Chapter 2. Administering hosts

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. In the Actions menu, click Clone.
3. On the Host tab, ensure to provide a Name different from the original host.
4. On the Interfaces tab, ensure to provide a different IP address.
5. Click Submit to clone the host.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources.
2. Select a compute resource.
3. On the Virtual Machines tab, click Associate VMs to associate all VMs or select Associate VM from the Actions menu to associate a single VM.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. On the Overview tab, click Edit on the System purpose card.
4. Select the system purpose attributes for your host.
5. Click Save.

CLI procedure

1. Log in to the host and edit the required system purpose attributes. For example, set the usage type to Production and the role to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. For the list of values, see Configuring System Purpose using the subscription-manager command-line tool in Automatically installing RHEL 8.

   # subscription-manager syspurpose set usage 'Production'
   # subscription-manager syspurpose set role 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server'

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2. Verify the system purpose attributes for this host:

   # subscription-manager syspurpose

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Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > Content Hosts and select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 hosts that you want to edit.
2. Click the Select Action list and select Manage System Purpose.

3. Select the system purpose attributes that you want to assign to the selected hosts. You can select one of the following values:

   • A specific attribute to set an all selected hosts.
   • No Change to keep the attribute set on the selected hosts.
   • None (Clear) to clear the attribute on the selected hosts.
4. Click Assign.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. Click the Content tab, then click the Module streams tab.
4. Click the vertical ellipsis next to the module and select the action you want to perform. You get a REX job notification once the remote execution job is complete.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts and select a host.
2. Select the Content tab, then select Repository sets.
3. From the dropdown, you can filter the Repository type column to Custom.
4. Select the desired number of repositories or click the Select All checkbox to select all repositories, then click the vertical ellipsis, and select Override to Enabled.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. Click the vertical ellipsis icon next to the Edit button and select Change content source.
4. Select Content Source, Lifecycle Content View, and Content Source from the lists.

5. Click Change content source.

   Note

   Some lifecycle environments can be unavailable for selection if they are not synced on the selected content source. For more information, see Adding lifecycle environments to Capsule Servers in Managing content.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. On the Content view environment card, click the options icon and select Edit content view environments.
4. Select the environment.
5. Select the content view.
6. Click Save.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.
3. Click Edit.
4. Click Manage host or Unmanage host to change the host’s status.
5. Click Submit.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select your host.
3. On the Traces tab, click Enable Traces.
4. Select the provider to install katello-host-tools-tracer from the list.
5. Click Enable Tracer. You get a REX job notification after the remote execution job is complete.
6. If you get a list of applications that need to be restarted, select the ones that you want to restart.

7. Click Restart app, then click one of these buttons:

   • Restart via remote execution

   • Restart via customized remote execution

     The first option restarts the application immediately, while the second one allows you to examine and customize the REX job.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click the name of the hosts you want to modify.
3. Select the Traces tab.
4. Select applications that you want to restart.
5. Select Restart via remote execution from the Restart app list. You will get a REX job notification once the remote execution job is complete.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select the checkbox of the host you want to change.
3. From the Select Action list, select Assign Organization. A new option window opens.

4. From the Select Organization list, select the organization that you want to assign your host to. Select the checkbox Fix Organization on Mismatch.

   Note

   A mismatch happens if there is a resource associated with a host, such as a domain or subnet, and at the same time not associated with the organization you want to assign the host to. The option Fix Organization on Mismatch will add such a resource to the organization, and is therefore the recommended choice. The option Fail on Mismatch will always result in an error message. For example, reassigning a host from one organization to another will fail, even if there is no actual mismatch in settings.

5. Click Submit.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select the checkbox of the host you want to change.
3. From the Select Action list, select Assign Location. A new option window opens.

4. Navigate to the Select Location list and choose the location that you want for your host. Select the checkbox Fix Location on Mismatch.

   Note

   A mismatch happens if there is a resource associated with a host, such as a domain or subnet, and at the same time not associated with the location you want to assign the host to. The option Fix Location on Mismatch will add such a resource to the location, and is therefore the recommended choice. The option Fail on Mismatch will always result in an error message. For example, reassigning a host from one location to another will fail, even if there is no actual mismatch in settings.

5. Click Submit.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > Content Hosts
2. Click the content host you want to view.
3. Select the Details tab to see the host details page.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click Manage columns.

3. Select columns that you want to display. You can select individual columns or column categories. Selecting or deselecting a category selects or deselects all columns in that category.

   Note

   Some columns are included in more than one category, but you can display a column of a specific type only once. By selecting or deselecting a specific column, you select or deselect all instances of that column.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts or Hosts > Content Hosts. Note that there is no difference from what page you remove a host, from All Hosts or Content Hosts. In both cases, Satellite removes a host completely.
2. Select the hosts that you want to remove.
3. From the Select Action list, select Delete Hosts.
4. Click Submit to remove the host from Satellite permanently.