<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial">On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Tim Mooney </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu" target="_blank">Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br style="font-family:arial">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:arial;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm right there with you regarding frustration about this.<br>
We *are* a Satellite user, so in many ways we have it even worse than<br>you do. It's not clear to me what Red Hat expects current Satellite<br>customers to do.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Red Hat Satellite 5.6 works perfectly fine with RHEL7 -- Beta and now GA. [1]</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:arial;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">So far,<br> <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/887923" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/<u></u>site/articles/887923</a><br>
is the best catch-all document I've seen, relating to differences and<br>trouble spots that people are having. I have, however, been completely<br>unable to find any documentation on what current Satellite customers<br>
are supposed to do regarding the new subscription management requirement<br>for 7.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you have Satellite, you don't have to use Subscription Management.</div><div><br></div><div>If you don't have Satellite, and don't want to use on-line Red Hat "hosted" Subscription Management, then Subscription Asset Manager (SAM) is now the solution. SAM allows off-line, internal usage, unlike Classic without Satellite.</div>
<div><br></div><div>SAM is compatible with RHEL5.8+, RHEL6 and RHEL7, and has been around for 3 years.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:arial;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Even if RHEL 7 turns out to be well-engineered from the start, Red Hat<br>really dropped the ball on the communication component.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>From my own experience, nothing has changed since December at the start of the RHEL7 Beta, when the Beta channels became available in the Content Delivery Network (CDN). [1a]</div>
<div><br></div><div>The only issue I know of was when doing an minimal install. Only the Subscription Manager tools are installed, and not the rhn_setup package required for Satellite. [1b]</div><div><br></div><div>SIDE NOTE: The RHEL7 Release Candidate (RC) didn't have channels separate from the Beta channels. [1c]</div>
<div><br></div><div>As always, new software channels in the CDN often require a new certificate. These can be generated with the self-service tool. [2]</div><div><br></div><div>This is one of the many reasons why I see Red Hat regularly encourage customers to sync the channels and test them with their existing provisioning and deployment workflow. I always make a point to test Satellite with any new certificate and channels whenever they become available. RHEL7 Beta and GA went much smoother for myself using Satellite 5.6 than even RHEL6 Beta and GA did back with 5.4.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>So, unless there is an experience I missed that you are running into, Satellite 5.6 should have "just worked" for RHEL7 (after generating a new certificate, of course). Even the Kickstarts have limited changes required, other than some comp.xml groupings and related details that may change with every, major update. Again, I ran into no issues myself back in December, and nothing else with GA.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Definitely reach out to Red Hat GSS and/or your representative if you're having any issues.</div><div><br></div><div>-- bjs<br></div><div><br></div><div>P.S. Per the article, RHEL7 requires Satellite 5.6 for new platform channel-tool support. This is no different than back in 2010, when RHEL6 also required customers to be on Satellite 5.4 for new channel-tool support as well.</div>
</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">[1] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/916273">https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/916273</a></font><br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">[1a] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/737373">https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/737373</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">[1b] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/649023">https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/649023</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
[1c] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/883343">https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/883343</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
[2] <a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/systems/GenerateCertificate.do">https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/systems/GenerateCertificate.do</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div>--<br>Bryan J Smith - UCF '97 Engr<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br>"In a way, Bortles is the personification of the UCF football<br>
program. Each has many of the elements that everyone claims to<br>want, and yet they are nobody's first choice. Coming out of high<br>school, Bortles had the size and the arm to play at a more<br>prestigious program. UCF likewise has the market size and the<br>
talent base to play in a more prestigious conference than the<br>American Athletic. But timing and circumstances conspired to put <br>both where they are now." -- Andy Staples, CNN-Sports Illustrated<br></div>
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