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Red Hat Satellite Installation Guidance

Red Hat Satellite Installation Guidance This blog provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide to installing Red Hat Satellite 6.15 on a RHEL 8 virtual machine in a connected network environment. It includes system prerequisites, firewall configuration, subscription setup, Satellite installation, and verification steps. By the end, you'll have a running Satellite server ready for post-install configuration. The figure below is the overview architecture of Red Hat Satellite. 1. Overview Red Hat Satellite is a systems management solution that enables efficient provisioning, configuration, and patching of RHEL systems. Satellite 6.15 introduces performance improvements and streamlined content management. This guide walks through deploying Satellite in a connected network setup. 2. System Requirements Before proceeding with the installation, make sure your environment meets the following requirements: Operating System : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Architecture : x86_64 only Res...

Red Hat Satellite 6.16 Upgrade Part 1

Red Hat Satellite Upgrade 6.15 -> 6.16 Part I In any large-scale IT environment, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) serves as the backbone for critical applications. However, managing a fleet of RHEL systems—from provisioning and patching to configuration and compliance can become overwhelmingly complex. This is precisely the challenge Red Hat Satellite is designed to solve. As the premier smart management tool for the RHEL ecosystem, Satellite provides a single pane of glass for the entire lifecycle of your systems. But what does "smart management" truly mean in a technical context? It's a suite of integrated capabilities: Content Management: Satellite provides full control over your software lifecycle. It syncs content (RPMs, container images, etc.) from Red Hat's CDN and allows you to curate it in Content Views . You can then promote this content through Lifecycle Environments (e.g., Dev → Test → Prod), ensuring that pat...

Red Hat Satellite 6.16 Upgrade Part 2

Synchronising the New Repositories You must enable and synchronise the new 6.16 repositories before you can upgrade Capsule Servers and Satellite clients. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Content > Red Hat Repositories . Toggle the Recommended Repositories switch to the On position. From the list of results, expand the following repositories and click the Enable icon to enable the repositories: Red Hat Satellite Client 6 repositories for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions that clients use. If you have Capsule Servers, to upgrade them, enable the following repositories too: Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.16 (for RHEL 8 x86_64) (RPMs) Red Hat Satellite Maintenance 6.16 (for RHEL 8 x86_64) (RPMs) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (for x86_64 - BaseOS) (RPMs) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (for x86_64 - AppStream) (RPMs) Note : If the Satellite 6.16 repositories are not visible in your Satellite, in the Satellite web UI, navigate to Content > Subscriptions, and then click Manage Manif...