Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration
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Review tasks from Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration. |
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After completing this section, you should have reviewed and refreshed the knowledge and skills that you learned in Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration.
Before beginning the comprehensive review for this course, you should be comfortable with the topics covered in each chapter. Do not hesitate to ask the instructor for extra guidance or clarification on these topics.
Plan a Red Hat Satellite deployment, installation, and initial configuration of Red Hat Satellite servers.
Describe the purpose, architecture, and components of Red Hat Satellite.
Plan a distributed Red Hat Satellite with Satellite Capsule Servers deployment, to meet multiple requirements and scenarios.
Describe the procedure to install Red Hat Satellite.
Use the Hammer CLI to perform routine administration and maintenance tasks on Red Hat Satellite Server.
Describe and configure organizations in Red Hat Satellite, and create and install content manifests for organizations.
Create and manage Red Hat software deployment lifecycle environments.
Enable repositories and products in the Red Hat Satellite library and configure sync plans to keep the library up-to-date.
Define a workflow for software promotion by creating lifecycle environments and organizing them into an environment path.
Create and publish content views, and promote them to lifecycle environments on an environment path.
Register and configure your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to use Red Hat Satellite, and organize those systems into groups for easier management.
Register a system with Red Hat Satellite and configure it to use a particular organization, location, subscription, and lifecycle environment.
Organize registered hosts into host collections to manage them concurrently.
Create and use activation keys to automatically register and configure a system for Satellite Server management.
Manage software deployment to registered hosts of your Red Hat Satellite infrastructure and practice managing environment paths, lifecycle environments, and content views.
Manage software on specific registered hosts with content views and lifecycle environments.
Create and manage content view filters and composite content views to provide content subsets or supersets to managed hosts.
Inspect, filter, and apply Red Hat errata to content views for precise patch management.
Create, manage, and deploy custom software products and repositories.
Create products and repositories for non-Red Hat content in Red Hat Satellite.
Create custom products and repositories with the repository discovery feature to search URLs for multiple repositories.
Update custom products and repositories and use content views to make them available to hosts.
Install and configure Red Hat Satellite Capsule Servers as components of a deployment plan.
Install an external Satellite Capsule Server to provide Satellite Server support to a distributed location.
Configure a Satellite Capsule Server for a defined purpose by enabling content features, infrastructure management services, and host management services.
Create and publish content views, and promote them to lifecycle environments on an environment path.
Run ad hoc and scheduled tasks on managed hosts with various configuration management tools.
Prepare for remote execution by establishing a secure connection to hosts and creating job templates, and then run remote jobs and view job results.
Configure and enable remote execution and install additional Ansible Roles on a Satellite Capsule Server.
Create a content view that supports Puppet configuration and create an activation key that enables Puppet configuration.
Configure Satellite Server for host provisioning.
Describe provisioning types and configure provisioning contexts and resources on Satellite Server and Satellite Capsule Servers.
Describe networking requirements for different provisioning types, and configure network services to support provisioning.
Provision hosts with templates.
Deploy new hosts with configured provisioning resources, network services, and installation parameters.
Configure a content host as an Image Builder server, and build images for host provisioning.
Automate Red Hat Satellite functionality at scale with Satellite API integration and Satellite Ansible Collection playbooks.
Query the Red Hat Satellite REST API to observe Satellite functionality, syntax, and authentication methods.
Manage Red Hat Satellite infrastructure and automate operations by using playbooks from the Satellite Ansible Collection.
Maintain Red Hat Satellite for security, recoverability, and growth.
Create users and groups, and assign roles and permissions, to securely delegate Red Hat Satellite tasks.
Perform backup and restore operations on Red Hat Satellite Servers and Satellite Capsule Servers, including databases and content stores.
Describe the distributed architecture and management features of Red Hat Satellite databases and perform maintenance tasks on a Red Hat Satellite Server database.
Transfer content between Satellite Servers by using defined content view versions or individual repositories.
Plan Red Hat Satellite deployments on cloud platforms, including provisioning managed content hosts.
Prepare for installing Red Hat Satellite Server and Capsules on selected cloud platforms.
Manage content host cloud instances on Amazon Web Services by using Red Hat Satellite.
Manage content host cloud instances on Google Compute Platform by using Red Hat Satellite.
Manage content host cloud instances on Microsoft Azure by using Red Hat Satellite.
