Upgrading Red Hat satellite and Capsule server

In this article, we will be Upgrading Red Hat satellite and Capsule server to 6.7.

Prerequisites

First check subscription manager repos are enabled

[root@satellite ~]#rpm -qa |grep -I satellite

Stop the katello sevice

[root@satellite ~]#katello-service stop

Update the RHEL OS packages

[root@satellite ~]#yum update -y

Now lets perform the upgrade checks

[root@satellite ~]#satellite-installer –scenario satellite –upgrade –verbopse –noop

Check the version compatibility which we need to upgrade satellite to using foreman-maintain

[root@satellite ~]#foreman-maintain upgrade check –target-version 6.7 –whitelist=”disk-performance”

Finally we will run the upgrade with target version 6.7

[root@satellite ~]#foreman-maintain upgrade run –target-version 6.7 –whitelist=”disk-performance”

Once upgrade is completed, re-enable the sync plans

[root@satellite ~]#re-enable sync plans

[root@capsule ~]#subscription-manager repos –list-enabled

Ensure you only have following repos enabled:

Rhel-x-server-rpms
Rhel-x-server-satellite-capsule-6.7-rpms
Rhel-server-rhscl-x-rpms
Rhel-x-server-satellite-tools-6.7-rpms

Stop the Katello service

[root@capsule ~]# katello-service stop

Backup the httpd.conf before performing system upgrade

[root@capsule ~]#cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /var/tmp

Once httpd.conf is backed up, let upgrade the OS

[root@capsule ~]#yum update -y

Perform preupgrade checks

[root@capsule ~]#satellite-installer –scenario capsule -upgrade –version –noop

Finally upgrade the capsule server

[root@capsule ~] satellite-installer –scenario capsule –upgrade

Once the upgrade is successfully done, we will get Success message: Upgrade completed