What is Hammer CLI?

Hammer is a powerful command-line tool provided with Red Hat Satellite 6. You can use Hammer to configure and manage a Red Hat Satellite Server either through CLI commands or automation in shell scripts. Hammer also provides an interactive shell.

What is Red Hat Network Satellite?

Red Hat® Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed to keep Red Hat Enterprise Linux® environments and other Red Hat infrastructure running efficiently, with security, and compliant with various standards.

Can RHEL 8 install satellite?

The satellite-tools-6.10-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms contains RHEL 8 client tools, not the installer for the Satellite server software. As stated above, the Satellite server still requires RHEL 7.9. Supported clients can vary from 6.10 to 8.5.

What is the use of Redhat satellite?

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that enables you to deploy, configure, and maintain your systems across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Satellite provides provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.

What is Hammer command in Linux?

Hammer is a command-line tool provided with Red Hat Satellite 6. You can use Hammer to configure and manage a Red Hat Satellite Server through either CLI commands or automation in shell scripts.

What is use hammer?

For example, hammers are used for general carpentry, framing, nail pulling, cabinet making, assembling furniture, upholstering, finishing, riveting, bending or shaping metal, striking masonry drill and steel chisels, and so on. Hammers are designed according to the intended purpose.

Is Red Hat Satellite an operating system?

Red Hat Satellite also includes components, configuration and functionality to provision and configure operating systems other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux. While these features are included and can be employed, Red Hat only provides support for their application towards Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

What is the latest Red Hat Satellite version?

Red Hat Satellite 5 is in the final Production 3 phase. The current releases, 5.6 and 5.7, would remain supported through January 2019. A further minor release 5.8 will be the only release supported in a supplementary Extended Life Phase from February 2019 through to EOL in May 2020.

How do you install RH satellite?

Follow System requirements, Storage requirements, firewall & port requirement (Preparing your Environment for Installation).

  1. Register the server to RHSM.
  2. List the subscription.
  3. Select the particular subscription and attach the pool.
  4. Verify the consumed subscription.
  5. Enable the Satellite repos.
  6. Enable the repos.

Does Red Hat Satellite Use puppet?

Red Hat Satellite 6 uses Puppet in several ways: Red Hat Satellite 6 imports Puppet modules used to define the system configuration. This includes control over module versions and their environments.

What is Capsule server in satellite?

Capsule Servers provide content federation and run localized services to discover, provision, control, and configure hosts. You can use Capsules to extend the Satellite deployment to various geographical locations.

What is hammer in Foreman?

Since version 1.3 the Foreman is shipped with new command line interface. [Hammer]. The goal is to provide full featured alternative to web user interface. In the first post of Hammer series we will focus on installation and configuration.