[ale] RH Satellite 6 moron's intro?

[Ramesh Nadupalli]

Here is my story :)

I was able to set it up in my environment using that installation
document, but it took a while for me to understand the way other
components work in satellite. For example content views, tasks,
understanding about the subscriptions, registering the clients etc..
Documentation provided is not adequate.

I had lot of challenges initially with repository sync's itself. I
have selected all the repos at once, but one of the job in the tasks
got stuck, it broke all other activities that I was doing. After
cancelling all the pending/in-progress tasks in foreman, I was able to
make the progress and sync the repositories that needed for my
environment.

In case if you have Data center subscriptions, you have to have a
virt-who host that communicates between hypervisors and guest vm's.
There is no saying about this in any of the documents. Had to open a
support ticket with RHN support to get this info. Also it didn't work
me using RHEL6.5, had to go for RHEL7.

Found that current version doesn't support integrating with AD. All
the users have to be internal. There were other issues too that I have
faced, finally we are up and running. Compared to sat5, I like this
product, but looking forward for the next release.

Thanks
Ramesh





On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:52 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's a brand new product and .0 release.  Expecting it to be unflawed is a
>> fallacy.
>>
>
> Should I expect the installation instructions to work for a "release worthy"
> product? I sure as hell think so.
>
> I also expect the documentation to thoroughly cover something that is
> completely different than the last version. Especially when it is mashing
> together so many disparate technologies that may or may not work together
> (and probably haven't been used before by people who use the Satellite
> product).
>
> I ended up wiping it out and installing it fresh for a third time today.
> Each time was different. So far, this time has worked better than the
> previous attempts. But there are still BIG gaps between what is in the doc,
> the knowledge the doc should be imparting, and what shows up on screen.
>
>
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