Exporting - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Installation Manual

Chapter 6. Importing and Synchronizing
The RHN Satellite Exporter offers several command line options. To use them, insert the option and
appropriate value after the rhn-satellite-exporter command.
Option
-d, --dir=
-cCHANNEL_LABEL, --
channel=CHANNEL_LABEL
--list-channels
--list-steps
-p --print-configuration
--print-report
--no-rpms
--no-packages
--no-errata
--no-kickstarts
--debug-level=LEVEL_NUMBER
--start-date=START_DATE
--end-date=END_DATE
--make-isos=MAKE_ISOS
--email
--traceback-mail=EMAIL
--db=DB
--hard-links
Table 6.1. RHN Satellite Exporter Options

6.1.2. Exporting

To perform a RHN Satellite Exporter export, the following prerequisites must be met:
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Description
Place the exported information into this directory.
Process data for this specific channel (specified
by label) only. NOTE: the channel's *label* is
NOT the same as the channel's *name*.
List all available channels and exit.
List all of the steps that rhn-satellite-exporter
takes while exporting data. These can be used
as values for --step.
Print the configuration and exit.
Print a report to the terminal when the export is
complete.
Do not retrieve actual RPMs.
Do not export RPM metadata.
Do not process Errata information.
Do not process kickstart data (provisioning only).
Override the amount of messaging sent to log
files and generated on the screen set in /etc/
rhn/rhn.conf, 0-6 (2 is default).
The start date limit that the last modified
dates are compared against. Must be in the
format YYYYMMDDHH24MISS (for example,
20071225123000)
The end date limit that the last modified dates
are compared against. Must be typed in the
format YYYYMMDDHH24MISS (for example,
20071231235900)
Create a channel dump ISO directory called
satellite-isos (for example, --make-
isos=cd or dvd
Email a report of what was exported and what
errors may have occurred.
Alternative email address for --email.
Include alternate database connect string:
username/password@SID.
Export the RPM and kickstart files with hard links
to the original files.