System Migration - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Deployment Manual

• Private — Make the channel private so that it cannot be accessed by any organizations except the
owning organization.
• Protected — Allow the channel to be accessed by specific trusted organizations of your choice.
• Public — Allow all organizations within the trust to access the custom channel.
Trusted Organizations that are granted access to the custom content using the protected or public
access modes can allow their client systems to install and update packages from the shared channel.
When a Organization Administrator changes the access of a shared channel to a access level that
is not allowed for a consuming organization, the systems subscribed to the shared channel will lose
subscription access.
Systems that are subscribed to shared content can be unsubscribed automatically when the following
actions occur:
• Trust Relationship is removed by the Satellite Administrator
• Organization Administrator changes channel access to private
• Organization Administrator changes channel access to public and does not include the subscribed
system's organization in the protected list
• Organization Administrator deletes the shared channel directly
• Organization Administrator deletes the parent channel of a shared child channel
All Red Hat software channels are managed through entitlements. Organization Administrators cannot
share Red Hat Channels because they are available to all organizations that have entitlements to
those channels. The Satellite administrator is responsible for assigning Red Hat software channel
entitlements to each organization.

4.4. System Migration

In addition to sharing software channels, organizations in a trust can migrate systems to other trusted
organizations by using a utility, migrate-system-profile, that is executed from the command-line using
the systemID and orgID as arguments to specify the system migration and its destination organization.
The Satellite Administrator can migrate a system from one trusted organization to any other in the
trust. However, Organization Administrators can only migrate a system from their own organization to
another in the trust.
The migrate-system-profile command requires the spacewalk-utils package to be
installed. spacewalk-utils is installed on Satellite 5.3 by default but may also be installed on
other clients that are subscribed to the rhn-tools channel. When an organization migrates a system
with the migrate-system-profile command, the system does not carry any of the previous
entitlements or channel subscriptions from the source organization. However, the system's history is
preserved, and can be accessed by the new Organization Administrator in order to simplify the rest of
the migration process, which includes subscribing to a base channel and granting entitlements.
The usage from the command line is the following:
migrate-system-profile --satellite {SATELLITE HOSTNAME OR IP} --systemId={SYSTEM ID} --to-org-
id={DESTINATION ORGANIZATION ID}
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