Red Hat SATELLITE 5.1 RELEASE NOTES Instruction Manual

Red Hat Network Satellite

Release Notes 5.1.0

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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 RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0.

• RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0 introduces the Organizations feature, which allows administrators

to to create and manage multiple organizations across the Satellite. The Organizations

feature allows administrators to appropriate software and system entitlements across various

organizations, as well as control an organization's access to systems management tasks.

• Extended Update Support (EUS) has been added to RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0. EUS

channels are for administrators who want to stay with one major or update version of Red Hat

Enterprise Linux (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1) and customize their package

updates for their particular version, rather than upgrade their systems to a new update version

that installs new software and features on production systems.

• User interface improvements featured in RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0 include a new search

feature for faster package and errata query and retrieval, as well as sorting and filtering

functionality to display specified information.

• The RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0 Application Programming Interface (API) has been expanded

and now features several new calls, including configuration management and activation key

API calls.

• RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0 introduces new features for interacting with and filtering Systems,

Groups, and User lists. Administrators can filter systems, groups, and users by keyword, and

run actions on just the filtered results (such as pressing the Select All button to automatically

mark the checkboxes).

• The following language preference enhancements and features are included in RHN Satellite

Server 5.1.0:

• When the Interface Language is set to Use Browser Settings, the RHN Satellite Server user

interface will be displayed in the user's browser default language.

• The language setting is displayed on the top left corner of every page of the RHN Satellite

Server user interface. You can change the language at any time by clicking the (change)

link next to the language setting.

• When a user's browser is set to a language that is unsupported by the RHN Satellite Server

user interface, English will be the default language displayed.

Chapter 1.

Major Corrections

The following are the major bug fixes and workarounds released as part of RHN Satellite Server

5.1.0.

• The RHN Satellite Server 5.1.0 installation has been changed so that it now requires the

following:

• The @Base installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the system where the Satellite

Server is being installed

• Either the system must be registered with Red Hat Network Hosted service so that up2date

can operate correctly or be able to install additional software manually.

• The osad service, by default, no longer fails over to the Satellite when the Proxy is

unavailable. To enable Proxy failover to the Satellite, edit the following line in the

/etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.conf file:

enable_failover = 1

• You can now configure the restricted deletion flag (sticky bit) for directories from the

Configuration Channels page.

• A bug that prevented usage of text based web browsers to login and use RHN Satellite

Server has been fixed.

• When creating kickstart labels or editing existing labels, only alphanumeric characters (A-Z,

a-z, 0-9) and underscores (_) are permitted.

• The path for virtual guest images has been changed to /var/lib/xen/images/ to conform to

SELinux policy.

• An issue was fixed where the State/Province field was not saved after editing and updating

the System Properties page.

• A bug was fixed where clicking on a particular Channel Entitlement on the Software

Channel Entitlements page (Your RHN => Subscription Management => Software

Channel Entitlements) shows that there are 0 systems subscribed to the channel even if

there are subscribed systems.

• You can now schedule errata updates from the System => Software => Errata => Confirm

Errata Update page.

• A bug has been fixed where the link to a Failed erratum under the Status column of the Errata

page led to the erratum information page rather than the System History page.

• RHN Satellite Server now supports bracket characters in user passwords, such as

Chapter 2.

parentheses ("()"), box brackets ("[]"), braces ("{}"), and angle brackets ("<>").

• User names with accented characters now display properly once they are saved.

• A bug was fixed that prevented dollar signs ($) from being used in SSL certificate passwords.

• An issue was fixed where filtering by username on the Users page resulted in an Internal

Server Error message when the administrator's Interface Language was set to a language

other than English.

• A bug was fixed where the Details page for packages whose names contain a special

character, such as a plus sign (`+`), would display a no package error.

• RHN Satellite Server features a new service called satellite-httpd. This service replaces

the standard httpd service that was used to start Satellite. If a Satellite administrator

attempts to start the httpd service on the Satellite system, the following warning will be

displayed on the terminal:

Warning: satellite-httpd is installed on this system.

Are you sure you want to run httpd and not satellite-httpd?

• Red Hat Network Satellite 5.1.0 now supports the 'org/<random hash>' URL type in kickstart

profiles as part of the new Organizations feature. For example:

https://sat.example.com/kickstart/ks/org/1x8ac1dbff1d17c09434225433ab8/view_label/rhel-i386-as-3-u8

• A filter text box has been added to the System Groups page to display groups matching a

certain string.

• Users, Systems, and System Group filter strings can now be cleared to display the complete

list.

•server.satellite.tiny_url_timeout is a new option in the /etc/rhn/rhn.conf file that

allows a user to configure the amount of time (in hours) a kickstart file is valid before it times

out. The default value is 4.

• The use of shell metacharacters (such as `?`, `\`, and `&`) in Data Source Name (DSN)

passwords are now supported.

• An issue was fixed where the nocpulse user was not created if a user with the UID 502

already existed.

• Users have the option to remove RHN Proxy Server packages during Proxy deactivation.

Once the packages are removed, you can then install any version of RHN Proxy without the

need to provision the OS.

Chapter 2. Major Corrections

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