Appendix C. Importing Content ISOs into a Connected Satellite

Downloading the content ISOs from the Red Hat Customer Portal

1. In your browser, navigate to Red Hat Customer Portal and log in.
2. Click DOWNLOADS.
3. Select Red Hat Satellite.
4. Select the Content ISOs tab.
5. Search for the section required, in this example Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
6. Click the link for the product name to reveal the ISO files.
7. Using your browser, download the required ISOs to a location accessible by your browser. For example, to your workstation’s Downloads directory.

Importing the Content ISOs

1. In a terminal connected to Satellite Server, create a directory to act as a temporary store for all of the required Satellite Content ISOs. This example uses /tmp/isos/rhel7:

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   # mkdir -p /tmp/isos/rhel7

2. On your workstation, copy the ISO files to Satellite Server:

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   $ scp ~/Downloads/iso_file root@satellite.example.com:/tmp/isos/rhel7

3. On Satellite Server, create a directory to serve as a mount point for the ISOs:

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   # mkdir /mnt/iso

4. Create a working directory to hold the contents of all the ISOs:

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   # mkdir /mnt/rhel7

5. Mount and recursively copy the contents of the first ISO to the working directory:

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   # mount -o loop /tmp/isos/iso_file /mnt/iso
   # cp -ruv /mnt/iso/* /mnt/rhel7/
   # umount /mnt/iso

6. Repeat the above step for each ISO until you have copied all the data from the Content ISOs into /mnt/rhel7.

7. If required, remove the empty directory used as the mount point:

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   # rmdir /mnt/iso

8. If required, remove the temporary working directory and its contents to regain the space:

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   # rm -rf /tmp/isos/

Performing the Initial Synchronization

1. Set the owner and the SELinux context for the directory and its contents to be the same as /var/lib/pulp:

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   # chcon -R --reference /var/lib/pulp  /mnt/rhel7/
   # chown -R apache:apache /mnt/rhel7/

2. Create or edit the /etc/pulp/content/sources/conf.d/local.conf file. Insert the following text into the file:

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   [rhel-7-server]
   enabled: 1
   priority: 0
   expires: 3d
   name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server
   type: yum
   base_url: file:///mnt/rhel7/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/

   The base_url path might differ in your content ISO. The directory specified in base_url must contain the repodata directory, otherwise the synchronization fails. To synchronize multiple repositories, create a separate entry for each of them in the configuration file /etc/pulp/content/sources/conf.d/local.conf.

3. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Content > Red Hat Repositories and enable the following repository: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server RPMs x86_64 Server.
4. Under Content > Sync Status select the repository to be synchronized and click Synchronize Now.