Red Hat Satellite Server – Connected Installation Method – Part 1 – Prepare Server
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Karthik Prabhu
- How to, Infrastructre & hardware, Satellite
- May 5, 2021


Introduction
Red Hat Satellite is one of the best system management solutions by which you can deploy, configure, and maintain your systems; it can be physical, virtual, or cloud environments. Satellite is single pane tool for provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments.
Red Hat Satellite Server – Installation Guides
- Red Hat Satellite Server – Connected Installation Method – Part 1 – Prepare Server
- Red Hat Satellite Server – Connected Installation Method – Part 2 – Configure Satellite
- Red Hat Satellite Server – Disconnected Installation Method – Part 1 – Prepare Server
- Red Hat Satellite Server – Disconnected Installation Method – Part 2 – Configure Satellite
Prerequisites
Basically we need a single server for Satellite and it can serve all of your clients. But as part of fallback and workload balancing, we can have additional capsule servers which are disconnected from internet but always talk to Satellite Server.
- 1 x Connected Satellite server (Primary – Will only talk to internet for package download)
- 1 x (or more) disconnected Satellite server (Secondary – Will talk to end clients for patching, provisioning etc)
- Follow System requirements, Storage requirements, firewall & port requirement ( Preparing your Environment for Installation ).
Register the server to RHSM
subscription-manager register
List the subscription
subscription-manager list --all --available --matches 'Red Hat Satellite Infrastructure Subscription'
## Or
subscription-manager list --available |grep "Subscription Name"
Select the particular subscription and attach the pool
(Replace the POOL_NAME
in below command)
subscription-manager attach --pool=POOL_NAME
Verify the consumed subscription.
subscription-manager list --consumed
Disable all repositories
subscription-manager repos --disable "*"
Enable the Satellite repos.
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms \
--enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-6.9-rpms \
--enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-maintenance-6-rpms \
--enable=rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms \
--enable=rhel-7-server-ansible-2.9-rpms
Enable the repos.
yum clean all
yum repolist enabled
Perform yum update
before satellite installation
yum update
Install satellite packages
yum install satellite
Verify DNS
Make sure Fully Qualified hostname is configured before installing satellite. Output for hostname -f
command should display hostname with FQDN.
Install Satellite
his process will take 20-30 minutes. Replace ORGANIZATION_NAME
as needed.
satellite-installer --scenario satellite --foreman-initial-organization "ORGANIZATION_NAME" --foreman-initial-location "Singapore" --foreman-initial-admin-username admin --foreman-initial-admin-password redhat
Enable Firewall
firewall-cmd \
--add-port="80/tcp" \
--add-port="443/tcp" \
--add-port="5674/tcp" \
--add-port="8000/tcp" \
--add-port="8140/tcp" \
--add-port="9090/tcp" \
--add-port="53/udp" \
--add-port="53/tcp" \
--add-port="67/udp" \
--add-port="69/udp" \
--add-port="5000/tcp"
Verify Satellite Console Access
Open Red Hat Satellite Web Console and verify access


Karthik Prabhu
Karthik has worked as Systems Engineer and Specialist in Red Hat technologies (Ansible, Red Hat Satellite, OpenShift), SIEM, Middleware, IAM, Virtualization and Cloud.
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