Bug 1739191

Summary: Red Hat Satellite 6.4 and 6.5 missing instructions to enable satellite-tools repository
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Amar Huchchanavar <ahuchcha>
Component: Hosts - ContentAssignee: Ondřej Pražák <oprazak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Stephen Wadeley <swadeley>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.5.0CC: oprazak, swadeley, vgrosu, zhunting
Target Milestone: 6.6.0Keywords: Triaged
Target Release: Unused   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-katello-3.12.0.19-1,rubygem-foreman_theme_satellite-4.0.1.6-1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2019-10-22 19:47:29 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Amar Huchchanavar 2019-08-08 17:44:11 UTC
Description of problem:

Satellite 6.4/6.5 -> hosts -> Content Hosts -> Register Content Host -> 

This page does not have the below instruction which was there in prior versions.

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If you want to use client tools such as katello-agent or puppet, the satellite-tools repository will need to be enabled

subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-\*-satellite-tools-\*-rpms

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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite 6.4/6.5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Satellite 6.4/6.5 -> hosts -> Content Hosts -> Register Content Host -> 

This page does not have the below instruction which was there in prior versions.



Actual results:
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To register a content host to this server, follow these steps.

    Select a Content Source:

Install the pre-built bootstrap RPM:

curl --insecure --output katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm https://vm255-66.gsslab.pnq2.redhat.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm 

Register using subscription-manager:

Using an Activation Key:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --activationkey="<Activation Key Name>"

Using a username and password:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --environment="Library"

Install client package:

To report package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools

To optionally report tracer information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools-tracer

For remote actions and reporting package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-agent

Learn more about these packages in the Documentation
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Expected results:
To register a content host to this server, follow these steps.

    Select a Content Source:

Install the pre-built bootstrap RPM:

curl --insecure --output katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm https://vm255-66.gsslab.pnq2.redhat.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm 

Register using subscription-manager:

Using an Activation Key:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --activationkey="<Activation Key Name>"

Using a username and password:

subscription-manager register --org="ORG" --environment="Library"




If you want to use client tools such as katello-agent or puppet, the satellite-tools repository will need to be enabled

subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-\*-satellite-tools-\*-rpms




Install client package:

To report package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools

To optionally report tracer information:

yum -y install katello-host-tools-tracer

For remote actions and reporting package & errata information:

yum -y install katello-agent

Learn more about these packages in the Documentation

Comment 3 Ondřej Pražák 2019-08-20 08:56:08 UTC
Created redmine issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/27667 from this bug

Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2019-08-20 14:02:14 UTC
Upstream bug assigned to oprazak

Comment 5 Bryan Kearney 2019-08-20 14:02:16 UTC
Upstream bug assigned to oprazak

Comment 6 Bryan Kearney 2019-08-22 18:02:12 UTC
Moving this bug to POST for triage into Satellite 6 since the upstream issue https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/27667 has been resolved.

Comment 20 Bryan Kearney 2019-10-22 19:47:29 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172