Red Hat Satellite 6.0 - Part 2 - Attaching Subscriptions

In Red Hat Satellite 6 - Part 1, I went through the process of installing Red Hat Satellite 6 and getting it to the point of continuing the configuration from the web interface.  Part 2 will cover initial configuration of the satellite. Keep in mind I've never done this before and I'm just documenting my steps, failures and lessons learned for all to read.

Logging in
Browse to https://servername in your favorite browser. After accepting the self signed certificate, you should get the fancy new satellite 6 logon page. Login with admin and the password which was given to you in the console after running the install process.









Configuring an organization
Satellite 6 seems to do a lot more with "organizations" and "locations" than Sat 5 did.  So, my first thing I'm going to do in the new installation is rename the default organization to what I want my organization to be called. Click on Any Context > Manage organizations.

On the Organizations screen, there will be a "Default_Organization" already created.  Click the edit button on the right. On the edit Default_Organization screen, type in the name of your company or group. Scroll down and click submit.

Generating a manifest
Now that we have defined an organization, we can import the licenses from the customer portal so we can start syncing repositories and adding systems.  Log into the Red Hat customer portal with the account that has all of your RHEL licenses attached to it.

First, we have to create a new subscription manager application. Click on subscriptions, subscription management, subscription management applications. Once there, click on "Register a subscription management application"

Select Satellite for the type from the drop down list. Type in the name of your satellite server. Select Satellite 6.0 from the drop down list and press register.

The satellite entry should show up in the table now. Click on the server name. On the next page, click on "Attach a Subscription."  A window should open up that lists all of your available RHEL subscriptions. Select each one which you want your satellite to manage and click Add on the bottom.

After attaching the subscriptions to the satellite, we have to download the manifest so it can be uploaded to the satellite server. Click on Download Manifest in the upper right corner. A zip file should start downloading.

Attach the Manifest to the Satellite

Once the manifest is downloaded, it has to be uploaded to the satellite server.  In the satellite web interface, make sure you have your organization selected and not "Any Context." To do this, click on "Any Context" and select your organization. Performing this step will ensure your subscriptions will be available to servers which are added to the organization.

Click on Content and then Red Hat Subscriptions

Click the Choose File button and select your downloaded manifest file.

Click on upload. After a couple moments, all of your subscriptions should show up in the left window pane.

That is it for part 2. In part 3 I will start syncing some repositories.