第5章 Release Information
These release notes highlight technology preview items, recommended practices, known issues, and deprecated functionality to be taken into consideration when deploying this release of Red Hat Satellite 6. Notes for updates released during the support lifecycle of this Red Hat Satellite 6 release will appear in the advisory text associated with each update.
5.1. Enhancements
This release of Red Hat Satellite 6 features the following enhancements:
- BZ#1160344
- Red Hat Satellite users can now set up Satellite and Capsule servers in a multi-homed configuration.
- BZ#1269673
- Red Hat Satellite now has a single button to force stop all paused, pending, or failed tasks involved in syncing instead of resolving each task manually.
- BZ#1410616
You can configure Satellite to send you email notifications about subscriptions that expire in 7, 30, 60, 90, or 120 days. You can also choose how often to send these notifications - daily, weekly, or monthly. To do this, in the Satellite web UI, in the upper-right corner, click your user name > My Account, click the Email Preferences tab, and configure the Subscriptions expiring soon notification. Each user can only get information about the subscriptions that they have permission to view.
The Entitlement report template has been renamed to Subscription - Entitlement Report. In this report template, the
Namedictionary has been renamed toHost Name.- BZ#1535466
You can now upgrade and update Capsules using satellite-maintain. Refer to the documentation for more details at Upgrading Capsule Servers and Updating Capsule Server to the Next Minor Version.
The package lock feature that was added in Satellite 6.7 to Satellite Server is enabled on Capsule Servers by default too.
- BZ#1571210
- Support has been added for Common Access Card (CAC) authentication in Red Hat Satellite through Red Hat Single Sign-On.
- BZ#1619274
- Full support for UEFI HTTP boot is now available in Satellite 6.8.
- BZ#1630433
- You can now install foreman-ansible-modules from RPM and use them from an Ansible runtime. This install includes all necessary libraries.
- BZ#1649329
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The
satellite-maintainpackage now upgrades itself automatically when you entersatellite-maintain upgrade checkorsatellite-maintain upgrade runcommands. Optionally, you can use the--disable-self-upgradeoption to skip the auto-update of thesatellite-maintainpackage. - BZ#1718954
- When you enable simple content access on a subscription allocation, automatic attachment of subscriptions is disabled in a Satellite organization that has a manifest with this subscription allocation imported. For more information about simple content access, see Setting up subscription watch and simple content access in Getting Started with Subscription Watch with Simple Content Access.
- BZ#1737564
- You can now create your own images and use them as a basis for hosts that you can provision in Azure.
- BZ#1789924
- When you enable simple content access on a subscription allocation, Satellite displays hosts' subscription status as disabled in the organization that has a manifest with this subscription allocation imported. Satellite does not calculate the subscription status of hosts as a component of their global_status. For more information about simple content access, see Setting up subscription watch and simple content access in Getting Started with Subscription Watch with Simple Content Access.
- BZ#1807042
You can now attach multiple disks to the VM on Azure Compute Resource while creating it through Host form. The maximum number of disks to be attached depends on the VM size selected as suggested here: General purpose virtual machine sizes.
Based on this selection, you can create multiple disks of varying sizes and disk caching options for the VM.
- BZ#1825269
- You can now upgrade Satellite Server without having to upgrade Capsule Servers at the same outage window. This way you can have several smaller outage windows for Satellite and Capsules upgrades. If you have configured Capsules with a load balancer, you can have one outage window for the Satellite upgrade and then upgrade Capsules separately avoiding outage windows.
- BZ#1828240
- Satellite 6.8 introduces Tracer, which is an integration with the Tracer tool which monitors running processes and identifies if they need to be restarted due to package updates or similar activities. Tracer was originally introduced in Satellite 6.3 as a technology preview feature.
- BZ#1881988
- You can now install Satellite and Capsule servers with IPv6 networks. This only applies to new installations of Satellite and Capsule on an IPv6 stack.
- BZ#1888627
- You can now use a remote execution job template to automate the upgrade of your Capsule infrastructure.
