Prerequisites
Open Source RedHat satellite upstreams: Spacewalk and Katello are not supported with this module
- Red Hat Satellite server is properly configured
- Red Hat Satellite server is configured to utilize activation key(s) for registering nodes
- Red Hat Satellite service user account must have rights to add/update/delete content hosts
- A Red Hat Linux VM provisioned from vRA can be registered to Red Hat Satellite from the command line.
- Root or an Account with
yum
access withoutsudo
must be used for credentials to Guest OS. - Red Hat VM Template cannot have the katello agent pre-installed.
Run the following steps from a Red Hat VM provisioned from VRA:
- Install the katello CA:
rpm -ivh http://<your_redhat_fqdn>/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
- Register the host using your Activation Key and Org:
subscription-manager register --activationkey="your_key" --org="your_org"
- Attach to the subscription Manager:
subscription-manager attach --auto
- Get repoID to use with step 5):
subscription-manager repos | grep satellite-tools
- Enable repo:
subscription-manager repos --enable <RepoID>
yum -y install katello-agent
If the commands above are not successful, engage with your Red Hat Satellite Administrator to help resolve.
If all the steps above are successful, you are ready to configure the SovLabs Red Hat Satellite module.