3.2. Configuring a Local Repository for Offline Red Hat Virtualization Manager Installation

Procedure

1. Register your system with the Content Delivery Network, entering your Customer Portal user name and password when prompted:

   # subscription-manager register

2. Find the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and Red Hat Virtualization subscription pools and record the pool IDs:

   # subscription-manager list --available

3. Use the pool IDs to attach the subscriptions to the system:

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=pool_id

   Note

   To view currently attached subscriptions:

   # subscription-manager list --consumed

   To list all enabled repositories:

   # yum repolist

4. Configure the repositories:

   # subscription-manager repos \
       --disable='*' \
       --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms \
       --enable=rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms \
       --enable=rhel-7-server-rhv-4.2-manager-rpms \
       --enable=rhel-7-server-rhv-4-manager-tools-rpms \
       --enable=rhel-7-server-ansible-2.9-rpms \
       --enable=jb-eap-7-for-rhel-7-server-rpms

1. Servers that are not connected to the Internet can access software repositories on other systems using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). To create the FTP repository, install and configure vsftpd:

   1. Install the vsftpd package:

      # yum install vsftpd

   2. Start the vsftpd service, and ensure the service starts on boot:

      # systemctl start vsftpd.service
      # systemctl enable vsftpd.service

   3. Create a sub-directory inside the /var/ftp/pub/ directory. This is where the downloaded packages will be made available:

      # mkdir /var/ftp/pub/rhevrepo

2. Download packages from all configured software repositories to the rhevrepo directory. This includes repositories for all Content Delivery Network subscription pools attached to the system, and any locally configured repositories:

   # reposync -l -p /var/ftp/pub/rhevrepo

   This command downloads a large number of packages, and takes a long time to complete. The -l option enables yum plug-in support.

3. Install the createrepo package:

   # yum install createrepo

4. Create repository metadata for each of the sub-directories where packages were downloaded under /var/ftp/pub/rhevrepo:

   # for DIR in find /var/ftp/pub/rhevrepo -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d; do createrepo $DIR; done;

5. Create a repository file, and copy it to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory on the offline machine on which you will install the Manager.

   The configuration file can be created manually or with a script. Run the script below on the system hosting the repository, replacing ADDRESS in the baseurl with the IP address or fully qualified domain name of the system hosting the repository:

   #!/bin/sh
   
   REPOFILE="/etc/yum.repos.d/rhev.repo"
   echo -e " " > $REPOFILE
   
   for DIR in `find /var/ftp/pub/rhevrepo -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d`;
   do
       echo -e "[`basename $DIR`]"	>> $REPOFILE
       echo -e "name=`basename $DIR`" >> $REPOFILE
       echo -e "baseurl=ftp://_ADDRESS_/pub/rhevrepo/`basename $DIR`" >> $REPOFILE
       echo -e "enabled=1" >> $REPOFILE
       echo -e "gpgcheck=0" >> $REPOFILE
       echo -e "\n" >> $REPOFILE
   done;

6. Install the Manager packages on the offline system. See Section 2.2, “Installing the Red Hat Virtualization Manager Packages” for instructions. Packages are installed from the local repository, instead of from the Content Delivery Network.
7. Configure the Manager. See Section 2.3, “Configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager” for initial configuration instructions.
8. Continue with host, storage, and virtual machine configuration.