Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration

Instructions

1. Log in to the Satellite Server web UI, https://satellite.lab.example.com, as the admin account with redhat as the password.

2. In the upper-left corner of the web page, set the organization to Operations. Set the location to Any Location.

3. Verify that two versions are available for the OperationsServerBase content view. Verify that the servera.lab.example.com and the serverc.lab.example.com content hosts are assigned to use the OperationsServerBase content view in the Development lifecycle environment.

   1. Click Content → Content Views, and then click OperationsServerBase. Verify that both Version 1.0 and Version 2.0 are listed.

   2. Click Hosts → Content Hosts, and then click servera.lab.example.com. Verify that the value for the Content View field is OperationsServerBase. Verify that the value for the Lifecycle Environment field is Development.

   3. Click Hosts → Content Hosts, and then click serverc.lab.example.com. Verify that the value for the Content View field is OperationsServerBase. Verify that the selected Lifecycle Environment checkbox is Development.

4. Assign the serverc system to the QA lifecycle environment.

   1. Click Hosts → Content Hosts, and then select the checkbox next to serverc.lab.example.com. In the upper-right corner, select Change Lifecycle Environment from the Select Action list.

   2. On the Assign Lifecycle Environment and Content View dialog box, select the QA checkbox.

   3. You must select a new content view when you change a content host's lifecycle environment. The Content View list choices are the same as for the previous lifecycle environment. Select OperationsServerBase, and then click Assign. Click Yes when prompted to confirm the new assignment.

5. Verify that the servera and serverc systems have access to the software that is available to their unique lifecycle environments.

   1. On workstation, log in to the serverc system as the student user and switch to the root user.

      [student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@serverc
      [student@serverc ~]$ sudo -i
      [sudo] password for student: student
      [root@serverc ~]#

   2. Verify that the serverc system is informed about the new assignment. The system's identity should list the QA lifecycle environment assignment, but it might still list Development/OperationsServerBase.

      [root@serverc ~]# subscription-manager identity
      system identity: 3244ed9d-ce23-4a2a-a39d-112324d84b3c
      name: serverc.lab.example.com
      org name: Operations
      org ID: Operations
      environment name: Development/OperationsServerBase

   3. If the environment name field remains as Development/OperationsServerBase, then request the content host to refresh its subscription data. Verify the system's identity again.

      [root@serverc ~]# subscription-manager refresh
      1 local certificate has been deleted.
      All local data refreshed

      [root@serverc ~]# subscription-manager identity
      system identity: 3244ed9d-ce23-4a2a-a39d-112324d84b3c
      name: serverc.lab.example.com
      org name: Operations
      org ID: Operations
      environment name: QA/OperationsServerBase

6. Verify that the ant package is not available to serverc. Install the ant package on servera.

   Note

   Selecting the AppStream repository's ant package as the example in this exercise is arbitrary. The AppStream repository is not included in the earlier version of the OperationsServerBase content view, but is included in the later version. You expect the package to be unavailable to the serverc content host in the QA lifecycle, which uses the earlier version. Conversely, you expect the package to be available to the servera content host in the Development lifecycle, which uses the later version.

   1. Verify that the ant package is not available on serverc.

      [root@serverc ~]# dnf list ant
      Updating Subscription Management repositories.
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)         75 kB/s | 2.4 kB
      Error: No matching Packages to list

   2. Return to the workstation system as the student user.

      [root@serverc ~]# exit
      logout
      [student@serverc ~]$ exit
      logout
      Connection to serverc closed.

   3. On workstation, log in to the servera system as the student user and switch to the root user.

      [student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@servera
      [student@servera ~]$ sudo -i
      [sudo] password for student: student
      [root@servera ~]#

   4. Verify that the ant package is available on servera.

      [root@servera ~]# dnf list ant
      Updating Subscription Management repositories.
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)         73 kB/s | 2.4 kB
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)      84 kB/s | 2.4 kB
      Available Packages
      ant.noarch             1.10.9-7.el9           rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

   5. Install the ant package on servera.

      [root@servera ~]# dnf install ant
      ...output omitted...
      Is this ok [y/N]: y
      ...output omitted...
      Complete!

   6. Return to the workstation system as the student user.

      [root@servera ~]# exit
      logout
      [student@servera ~]$ exit
      logout
      Connection to servera closed.