Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Deployment Manual page 4

Deployment Guide
5. Provisioning with Satellite
5.1. Requirements ..................................................................................................... 33
5.2. Definitions and Terms ......................................................................................... 33
5.3. Provisioning Scenarios Supported ....................................................................... 34
5.4. Overview of Preparing a Satellite for Provisioning ................................................. 34
5.5. Kickstart Trees And Software Content ................................................................. 34
5.5.1. Automatically Installed Kickstart Trees ...................................................... 34
5.5.2. Manually Installed Kickstart Trees ............................................................. 34
5.5.3. Required Distribution Files ....................................................................... 36
5.5.4. Required Packages .................................................................................. 36
5.6. Kickstart Profiles ................................................................................................ 37
5.6.1. Virtualization Types .................................................................................. 37
5.6.2. Creating Kickstart Profiles ........................................................................ 37
5.7. Templating ......................................................................................................... 40
5.7.1. Use Cases .............................................................................................. 40
5.7.2. Variables ................................................................................................. 40
5.7.3. Snippets .................................................................................................. 41
5.8. Kickstarting a Machine ........................................................................................ 43
5.8.1. Bare Metal ............................................................................................. 43
5.8.2. Re-Provisioning ....................................................................................... 48
5.8.3. Virtualized Guest Provisioning .................................................................. 49
5.8.4. Provisioning Through an RHN Proxy ......................................................... 50
5.9. Advanced Topics ................................................................................................ 50
5.9.1. API ......................................................................................................... 50
5.9.2. Cobbler On the Command Line ................................................................ 51
5.9.3. Cobbler Command Line: Next Steps ......................................................... 52
5.9.4. Naming Conventions ................................................................................ 52
5.9.5. Other Cobbler settings ............................................................................. 53
5.9.6. Using Koan directly .................................................................................. 53
5.10. Troubleshooting ................................................................................................ 54
5.10.1. Web Interface errors .............................................................................. 54
5.10.2. Anaconda Startup errors ........................................................................ 54
5.10.3. Anaconda content errors ........................................................................ 55
5.10.4. Cobbler log files ..................................................................................... 57
5.10.5. Tracebacks from Taskomatic .................................................................. 57
5.10.6. Registration Issues ................................................................................ 57
5.10.7. Directory structure for Kickstarts and Snippets ......................................... 58
III. Working with multiple Satellites
6. Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS)
6.1. Required Environment for ISS ............................................................................. 63
6.2. Recommended Models for Inter-Satellite Sync ..................................................... 63
6.3. Configuring the Master RHN Satellite Server ........................................................ 64
6.4. Configuring the Slave RHN Satellite Servers ........................................................ 65
6.5. Using Inter-Satellite Sync .................................................................................... 65
6.5.1. Syncing between a Development Staging Server and a Production
Satellite ............................................................................................................ 66
6.5.2. Bi-directional sync .................................................................................... 66
6.6. Synchronizing by Organization ............................................................................ 66
A. Revision History
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