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Summary

  • Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool to configure new systems and provide software updates from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

  • Satellite components include Satellite Server and Capsule Server, and the latter provides a proxy for many Satellite functions.

  • By default, Satellite supports both Red Hat CDN, at https://cdn.redhat.com, and local offline CDN that follows the appropriate directory structure.

  • Satellite supports both connected and disconnected installation methods.

  • Organizations and locations support content-related functions, such as the management of products, repositories, and content views.

  • Hammer is a command-line tool to configure and manage a Satellite Server.

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