RH Satellite 6.11: Registering Hosts to Satellite

Fix DNS in Test Environment

Manually set DNS on every servers

# cat /etc/hosts 
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
192.168.122.22    satellite.mkk.se satellite
192.168.122.33    rhel90-01.mkk.se rhel90-01

Prepare Hosts for Satellite Registration

# timedatectl
               Local time: Sat 2022-07-02 00:46:59 UTC
           Universal time: Sat 2022-07-02 00:46:59 UTC
                 RTC time: Sat 2022-07-02 00:46:59
                Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

# chronyc -n tracking

Registering Hosts to Satellite

Chapter 3. Registering Hosts to Satellite
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.11/html-single/managing_hosts/index#Registering_Hosts_to_Server_managing-hosts

Clear any previous subscription and registration.

[root@rhel90-01 ~]# subscription-manager remove --all
[root@rhel90-01 ~]# subscription-manager unregister
[root@rhel90-01 ~]# subscription-manager clean

Download and install the consumer RPM.

[root@rhel90-01 tmp]# yum localinstall http://satellite.mkk.se/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm

Register the host with a Satellite admin account

# subscription-manager register --org <Organization> --environment <Lifecycle Environment Name>/<Content View>

[root@rhel90-01 tmp]# subscription-manager register --org MKK --environment Development/Base
Registering to: satellite.mkk.se:443/rhsm
Username: admin
Password: 
The system has been registered with ID: a2bdbfbb-13f3-430f-9a11-431da3a43b87
The registered system name is: rhel90-01.mkk.se

[root@rhel90-01 tmp]# subscription-manager status
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Disabled
Content Access Mode is set to Simple Content Access. This host has access to content, regardless of subscription status.

System Purpose Status: Disabled

[root@rhel90-01 tmp]# subscription-manager repos --list
+----------------------------------------------------------+
    Available Repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Repo ID:   rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
Repo Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)
Repo URL:  https://satellite.mkk.se/pulp/content/MKK/Development/Base/content/dist/rhel9/$releasever/x86_64/baseos/os
Enabled:   1

Repo ID:   rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
Repo Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)
Repo URL:  https://satellite.mkk.se/pulp/content/MKK/Development/Base/content/dist/rhel9/$releasever/x86_64/appstream/os
Enabled:   1

[root@rhel90-01 tmp]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo 
#
# Certificate-Based Repositories
# Managed by (rhsm) subscription-manager
#
# *** This file is auto-generated.  Changes made here will be over-written. ***
# *** Use "subscription-manager repo-override --help" if you wish to make changes. ***
#
# If this file is empty and this system is subscribed consider
# a "yum repolist" to refresh available repos
#

[rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms]
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)
baseurl = https://satellite.mkk.se/pulp/content/MKK/Development/Base/content/dist/rhel9/$releasever/x86_64/appstream/os
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
sslverify = 1
sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/katello-server-ca.pem
sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/7011859186933837834-key.pem
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/7011859186933837834.pem
metadata_expire = 1
enabled_metadata = 1

[rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms]
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)
baseurl = https://satellite.mkk.se/pulp/content/MKK/Development/Base/content/dist/rhel9/$releasever/x86_64/baseos/os
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
sslverify = 1
sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/katello-server-ca.pem
sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/7011859186933837834-key.pem
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/7011859186933837834.pem
metadata_expire = 1
enabled_metadata = 1

Verify registred host on Satellite

https://satellite.mkk.se/ -> <Select Organization> -> Hosts -> Content Hosts