In the following Blog posts I will post tutorials on how to install and configure RHEL Satellite with all the bells and whistles possible. It will include detailed instructions on setting up each component and how to proceed from there. This post assumes a fully functional Red Hat Identity Management stack is present in the …
RHEL Satellite 6 Installation & Configuration HOW-TO Part 1 Read More »
I have not yet voiced an opinion on Systemd, because it is new and therefore unproven technology. I first had to experience it all and see whats up with this new tool that is supposed to fix all problems of init. 1 word: Crap. It isn’t up to the job. Init still rules my world, …
Dear Readers, I am now blessed with having a full 100% Linux laptop at work. The laptop also travels between 2-3 clients with various network settings, all with their own DNS servers. Usually, DHCP takes care of that and you haven’t got a care in the world. Until now …. I now have a client …
Dear Readers, My own datacenter had to go into ‘dark’ mode, because of imminent maintenance on the power-source. This has led me to shutdown all VM’s on my network, then shut down the openstack compute nodes and finally openstack the physical machine. (in that order). When the openstack nodes bootted again, one isolated test-compute/storage-node named …
This post I am going to talk about what RHEL Satellite is still lacking and why that is a big deal. Implementing it would probably mean even heavier specs for the RHEL server thats running satellite, but I still think they would be valuable add-ons for Satellite. Puppet Database (puppetdb). Remote Execution (planned in 6.2) …
What Satellite is still lacking in features that would make it even more excellent. Read More »
Satellite has the capability to make facts available to puppet-clients through its ENC. This process however is not documented well on Satellite’s , nor on Puppets documentation. Take for example a class on the puppet-forge that requires some input for optional couplings: maestrodev/archiva This class has some optional parameters: # # $ldap = { # …
So today, I am talking about server-side facts. These are facts a client can not and does not gather by itself. They are defined on the puppet server , which is usually the Satellite server running Foreman as well. Unfortunately, Puppet within satellite does not allow the creation of server-side facts easily. You can set …
Puppet is a wonderful tool and as Foreman/RH Satellite now support puppet out of the box, it is time to explore. For the purpose of this blog post, I shall assume RH Satellite == Foreman! The first thing to be noted, is that puppet is severely under-documented in the redhat and foreman documentation. Little is …
Today I am going to talk about (remote) access with satellite. Apparently, there are a few things that you must know in order to get stuff working correctly. First of all: Red Hat Identity Manager Satellite coupling for user accounts. When you create the coupling as an external LDAP source in satellite, by default users …
There are some things not yet in the RedHat manual concerning implementing discovered hosts provisioning through use of the discovery image in Red Hat Satellite Server. First of all, the FDI is also running a very limited foreman-proxy server, so to get full functionality you also need to open port 8443 on the subnet where …
Firewall rules incomplete when using Autodiscovery with RHEL Satellite 6.1 Read More »
