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Quick Start Guide

Installing, configuring, and provisioning physical and virtual hosts from Red Hat Satellite Servers.

Red Hat Satellite Documentation Team

The Red Hat Satellite Quick Start Guide is designed to help you quickly install and configure Red Hat Satellite Server, as well as provision physical and virtual hosts. This guide is aimed primarily at Satellite administrators with sound networking knowledge and skills.

Chapter 1. Should You Use This Guide?

The Quick Start Guide enables you to install and configure your Satellite Server based on a set of assumptions about your environment. This includes setting up the required topology and providing all of the configuration information needed to provision hosts on your network.

You should use this guide if the following assumptions apply to your environment:

• You are performing a fresh installation of Red Hat Satellite.
• You will have a single Satellite Server deployment.
• You can connect to the Red Hat Content Network to obtain packages and receive updates.
• You have an existing external DNS server that you want to connect to Satellite Server.
• Your environment does not use DHCP, or uses external DHCP services.
• You have an existing host that you want to register to Satellite to use for patching.
• You want to use PXE-less discovery to provision hosts.
• You use a kickstart-based deployment.
• Your deployment uses simple Content Views.
• You are using IPv4.

Some of the tasks in this guide use example information. You should ensure that you use values that are specific to your environment.

If your environment does not fit with these assumptions, you can use the following resources to assist you with installing Satellite Server:

Chapter 2. Installing Satellite Server

2.1. Preparing for Satellite Server Installation

Ensure that you meet all the prerequisites before installing Satellite Server.

Prerequisites

• You must create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host before you can install and configure Satellite Server. Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.5 or later is supported. For more information about installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Installation Guide.
• Ensure that your environment meets the requirements for installation, including meeting storage requirements, and ensuring that network ports and firewalls are open and configured. For more information, see the Preparing your Environment for Installation in Installing Satellite Server from a Connected Network .

2.2. Registering to Red Hat Subscription Management

Registering the host to Red Hat Subscription Management enables the host to subscribe to and consume content for any subscriptions available to the user. This includes content such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL), and Red Hat Satellite.

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

# subscription-manager register

# subscription-manager register Username: user_name Password: The system has been registered with ID: 541084ff2-44cab-4eb1-9fa1-7683431bcf9a

2.3. Attaching the Satellite Infrastructure Subscription

After you have registered Satellite Server, you must identify your subscription Pool ID and attach an available subscription. The Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure subscription provides access to the Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) content. This is the only subscription required.

Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure is included with all subscriptions that include Smart Management. For more information, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase solution Satellite Infrastructure Subscriptions MCT3718 MCT3719.

Subscriptions are classified as available if they are not already attached to a system. If you are unable to find an available Satellite subscription, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase solution How do I figure out which subscriptions have been consumed by clients registered under Red Hat Subscription Manager? to run a script to see if your subscription is being consumed by another system.

Identify the Pool ID of the Satellite Infrastructure subscription:

# subscription-manager list --all --available --matches 'Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure Subscription'

Subscription Name: Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure Subscription Provides: Red Hat Satellite Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 Red Hat Ansible Engine Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (for RHEL Server) Red Hat Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Red Hat Satellite Capsule Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 Red Hat Satellite Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB Red Hat Satellite 6 Red Hat Discovery SKU: MCT3719 Contract: 11878983 Pool ID: 8a85f99968b92c3701694ee998cf03b8 Provides Management: No Available: 1 Suggested: 1 Service Level: Premium Service Type: L1-L3 Subscription Type: Standard Ends: 03/04/2020 System Type: Physical

# subscription-manager attach --pool=pool_id

Successfully attached a subscription for: Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure Subscription

# subscription-manager list --consumed

2.4. Configuring Repositories

Use this procedure to enable the repositories that are required to install Satellite Server.

# subscription-manager repos --disable "*"

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms \ --enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-6.8-rpms \ --enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-maintenance-6-rpms \ --enable=rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms \ --enable=rhel-7-server-ansible-2.9-rpms

If you are installing Satellite Server as a virtual machine hosted on Red Hat Virtualization, you must also enable the Red Hat Common repository, and install Red Hat Virtualization guest agents and drivers. For more information, see Installing the Guest Agents and Drivers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Virtual Machine Management Guide for more information.

2.5. Installing Satellite Server

# satellite-installer --scenario satellite \ --foreman-initial-admin-username admin \ --foreman-initial-admin-password redhat \ --foreman-proxy-puppetca true \ --foreman-proxy-tftp true \ --enable-foreman-plugin-discovery

2.6. Importing a Subscription Manifest into Satellite Server

Use the following procedure to import a Subscription Manifest into Satellite Server.

Prerequisites

• You must have a Subscription Manifest file exported from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Using Manifests in the Using Red Hat Subscription Management guide.

1. In the Satellite web UI, ensure the context is set to the organization you want to use.
2. Navigate to Content >Subscriptions and click Manage Manifest .
3. In the Manage Manifest window, click Browse .
4. Navigate to the location that contains the Subscription Manifest file, then click Open . If the Manage Manifest window does not close automatically, click Close to return to the Subscriptions window.

For CLI Users

Copy the Subscription Manifest file from your client to Satellite Server:

$ scp ~/manifest_file.zip root@satellite.example.com:~/.

# hammer subscription upload \ --file ~/manifest_file.zip \ --organization "organization_name"

Chapter 3. Associating Objects with the Default Organization and Location

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Simplify infrastructure management

Red Hat Satellite can manage your entire infrastructure—not just Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems—from a single console.

Implement your standard operating environment

Improve system consistency, reduce errors, and meet compliance standards.

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Meet the demand for managing thousands of distributed systems across multiple datacenters.

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• Curation of content prior to distribution
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• Report on hosts that need updates, fixes, or enhancements
• Group homogeneous systems so that you can easily work with them
• Respond quickly to patching requirements using scalable automation

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• Provision to bare metal, virtual, private, and public clouds
• Discover non-provisioned hosts
• Automate using Ansible roles to perform post-provisioning steps

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• Centrally manage subscription usage
• Maintain accurate inventory and utlization information
• Report on subscription consumption

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Features and benefits

Red Hat ® Satellite can manage the life cycle of Red Hat infrastructure and configuration content. This includes:

• Red Hat Data Services
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• Red Hat Directory Server
• Red Hat Certificate System
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Any other software available as an RPM

Compared to other enterprise solutions, it’s less complex and less costly to implement. Unlike homegrown solutions, it follows best practices and scales to manage thousands of Red Hat systems efficiently.

Implement your standard operating environment (SOE)

Define and establish standard operating environments (SOEs) that let you deploy systems in a fast and repeatable manner. This improves system consistency, which helps increase efficiency, reduce errors, and meet compliance standards.

Scale your environment

Red Hat Satellite can scale out to manage thousands of remote systems. It accomplishes this using Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server instances that are deployed at remote sites. Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server provides local management, while communicating back to Red Hat Satellite Server to provide a unified organizational view across multiple sites.

Lower costs, more efficiency

An IDC return-on-investment (ROI) study found the average payback period for the initial Red Hat Satellite investment to be less than seven months. Red Hat Satellite more efficiently manages your Linux systems, lowering per-system deployment and management costs. It also helps control costs by:

• Letting you easily standardize machine configurations.
• Vastly improving system-to-administrator ratios by automating patch and configuration management, and provisioning.
• Reducing errors and inconsistencies.
• Allowing junior-level administrators to perform senior admin tasks, which are organized in an intuitive interface.

Save time and free up resources

Red Hat Satellite provisioning and configuration capabilities let you roll out new systems in minutes. Add more systems without adding more administrators by using the advanced automation capabilities. Spend less time on these tasks, and help your admins focus on higher-value activities (and respond more quickly to business needs).

Improve security

Red Hat Satellite lets your organization more easily address security, bug-fix, and enhancement errata. For example, you can use it to identify and quickly respond to vulnerabilities like Shellshock, Heartbleed, and GHOST. Red Hat Satellite also gives you peace of mind by letting you use industry-standard scanning and remediation tools, such as OpenSCAP, to audit systems and remediate them if required.

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