Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration

Within Satellite Server, content-related functions, such as the management of products, repositories, and content views, are specific to organizations. Therefore, administrators must complete the management of organizations early in the implementation of their Satellite infrastructure. The Satellite Server installation, by default, includes an organization called Default Organization. In Red Hat Satellite 6, you can create and manage multiple organizations and then divide and assign your Red Hat subscriptions to each organization.

Navigate to Administer → Organizations and click New Organization to create an organization. Create a name for the organization and a unique identifier as the organization's label. Use a label to create and map certain assets, such as directories for content storage. When creating a label, use letters, numbers, underscores, and dashes, but no spaces. Additionally, you have the option to enter a description for the organization.

You can edit existing values or assign infrastructure resources that you want to add to an organization, such as networking, installation media, and kickstart templates.

To edit an organization, navigate to Administer → Organizations and click the organization's name to edit. Alternatively, you can click Edit in the Actions column in the same row as the organization to edit. Choose the category to edit from the left side of the Organizations page. For example, click Primary to edit values such as the organization's name, label, or description.

To delete an organization, navigate to Administer → Organizations and select Delete from the Edit list to the right of the organization's name to delete.

Organizations divide Red Hat Satellite 6 resources into logical groups that are based on ownership, purpose, content, security level, or other divisions. Locations divide organizations into logical groups based on geographical location.

Navigate to Administer → Locations and click New Location. If the location is a sublocation of another location, then select that other location in the Parent field. Nested locations are convenient for creating management groups that are based on regional asset authority in your organization. Create a meaningful name for the location.

You can edit existing values or assign infrastructure resources to add to a location, such as networking, installation media, and kickstart templates.

To edit a location, navigate to Administer → Locations and click the location name to edit. Alternatively, you can click Edit in the Actions column in the same row as the location to edit. Choose the category to edit from the left side of the Locations page. For example, click Primary to edit the location's parent, name, or description.

You can delete a location if the location is not associated with any lifecycle environments or host groups. If any lifecycle environments or host groups are associated with the location to delete, then remove them before deleting the location.

To delete a location, navigate to Administer → Locations and select Delete from the Edit list to the right of the location name to delete.

To create a subscription manifest, access the Red Hat Customer Portal and log in to the Red Hat account that you used to register the system to Red Hat Subscription Management. Navigate to Subscriptions in the upper-left corner of the Customer Portal. Click Subscription Allocations and then click Create New subscription allocation. Create a name for your manifest, and select a type and version of the subscription management application that you are using, such as Satellite 6.11.

As a Red Hat Satellite administrator, you can enable Simple Content Access (SCA). SCA is a new, optional feature of Red Hat Satellite 6 and Red Hat Subscription Management. This feature simplifies entitlement tasks, so that it is easier to consume the content from your Red Hat subscriptions. You enable Simple Content Access separately for each organization, allowing you to maintain some organizations with the SCA behavior and others without the behavior.

To add subscriptions to your manifest, navigate to Subscription Allocations on the Customer Portal and click the manifest name to add subscriptions to. Click Subscriptions and then click Add Subscriptions.

You see a list of your Red Hat product subscriptions. In the Entitlement Quantity field, enter the required number of entitlements for each product in the manifest.

While viewing a subscription allocation with at least one subscription, you can export a manifest from one of these places:

On the Customer Portal, navigate to Subscription Allocations and click the subscription manifest name to export. To download the subscription manifest to your local system, on either the Subscriptions or the Details tab, click Export Manifest.

When you export a subscription manifest, the Customer Portal encodes the selected subscription certificates and creates a compressed file that you can upload to the Satellite Server.

After you install a subscription manifest, a Satellite Server with access to Red Hat Content Delivery Network synchronizes Red Hat content. You must assign a subscription manifest to an organization within the Satellite Server.

In the Satellite web UI, set the context to the organization to associate with the imported subscription manifest. To import the subscription manifest, navigate to Content → Subscriptions and click Manage Manifest to display the manifest dialogue for the organization.

Select the CDN Configuration tab to set the correct location for the URL in the Red Hat CDN section. The default location is https://cdn.redhat.com. For a disconnected Satellite infrastructure, set the location to the URL for your locally hosted content ISO. Our classroom is an example of a disconnected infrastructure and uses http://cdn.lab.example.com to reach the locally hosted content ISO.

Select the Manifest tab and click Browse to locate and select the manifest you downloaded from the Red Hat Customer Portal.