Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.0.0 - Instruction Manual

Red Hat Network Satellite

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Release Notes 5.0.0

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Red Hat Network Satellite

1. Major Features ...................................................................................................... 1

2. Major Corrections ................................................................................................... 3

Major Features

The following are the major features released as part of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.0.0.

• RHN Satellite Server 5.0.0 includes virtualization management features, including the ability

to provision virtual guests, stop, start, and pause them.

• Red Hat Network's entitlement model has been updated to accomodate virtual guests.

• Channel names have been refactored to accomodate Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5's new

Server and Client product variants.

Chapter 1.

Major Corrections

The following are the major bug fixes released as part of Red Hat Network 5.0.0.

• The return codes for satellite-sync have been updated and expanded. The new codes

may be viewed on a satellite by executing the command satellite-sync

--list-error-codes. The new return codes are:

-1 - Could not lock file or KeyboardInterrupt or SystemExit

0 - User interrupted or intentional exit.

1 - attempting to run more than one instance of satellite-sync.

2 - Unable to find synchronization tools.

3 - a general socket occurred

4 - an SSL error occurred. Recheck your SSL settings.

5 - RHN error

6 - unhandled exception occurred

7 - unknown sync error

8 - ERROR: must be root to execute

9 - rpclib fault during synchronization init

10 - synchronization init error

11 - Error parsing XML stream

12 - Channel do not exist

13 - SQL error during importing package metadata

14 - SQL error during linking channel packages

15 - SQL error during xml processing

16 - server.mount_point not set in the configuration file

17 - SQL error during retrieving the channels already imported in the

satellite's database

18 - Wrong db connection string in rhn.conf

19 - Bad arguments

20 - Could not connect to db.

21 - Bad debug level

22 - Not valid step

23 - error: --rhn-cert requires --mount-point

24 - no such file

25 - no such directory

• A configuration option has been added to osad.conf. This setting allows a user to toggle

whether rhn_check runs when osad is run with a debug level of 5 or greater. Set the run

rhn_check option to 1to perform the check when the debug level is set to 5.

• Deleting multiple systems from a Satellite that has Monitoring enabled no longer results in an

Internal Server Error.

• A bug that caused kickstarts to ignore the sync to package profile option of a kickstart

profile for 64-bit systems has been corrected.

• A bug that prevented the installation of packages from an RHN Proxy using yum has been

corrected.

Chapter 2.

• Executing the Satellite Installation Program with unknown options now causes the

program to stop, rather than continuing while ignoring the unknown option.

• The Pending Actions page of the Schedule tab now includes a Cancel Actions button. This

button allows a user to cancel actions that have not yet occurred.

• The contents of the RHN Tools child channel are required in order to perform a bare metal

kickstart. When creating a kickstart profile from a base channel that does not have this child

channel, a message appears to indicate that necessary packages do not exist in the specified

base channel.

• The API no longer logs passwords in rhn_web_api.log as a result of auth.login requests.

• The RHN Applet now checks for available updates more frequently than in the past.

• The taskomatic process no longer fails when it cannot contact an external database.

• Bare metal kickstarts are now included in the list of Systems Currently Kickstarting on the

Kickstart Overview page.

• The timezone America/Toronto has been added to the appropriate drop-down menu in the

kickstart profile creation process.

• A bug that corrupted pre- and post-scripts added to kickstart profiles via the web interface

has been corrected.

• The command service rhn-satellite status; echo$? now produces an accurate return

code. This enables Red Hat Cluster Suite to monitor the health of an RHN Satellite Server.

• Changing the notification method for the administrator account of a Satellite no longer causes

an Internal Server Error.

• A bug that caused the --step=rpms and the --no-rpms options of satellite-sync to fail

has been corrected.

• It is now possible to export data from a 4.1.0 RHN Satellite Server and import it into an 5.0.0

Satellite.

• The bootstrap.sh script generated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems now makes use

of yum.

• The python-cheetah-1.0-2.el4.i386.rpm package has been removed from the RHN

Satellite Server ISO; it is not required for installation.

• It is again possible to kickstart between compatible 32-bit and 64-bit base channels.

• When executing a package profile sync by issuing rhn_check -vv on a client system, any

missing packages are listed by name in the command's output.

• A bug that prevented snapshot tags from being properly created has been fixed.

Chapter 2. Major Corrections

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