Satellite 6.3 to 6.4 Upgrade

References:

• Upgrading Red Hat Satellite
• Upgrading Puppet

For each Organisation in Satellite refresh their manifests.

Check what issues exist before upgrading. I had a couple of thousand old tasks which it offered to cleared out for me. I quit when it found I had to upgrade Puppet first.

foreman-maintain upgrade list-versions
foreman-maintain upgrade check --target-version 6.4

Upgrade Puppet on Satellite

 subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-satellite-6.3-puppet4-rpms
 satellite-installer --upgrade-puppet

Replace the “JAVA_ARGS” variable withthe following in /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver:

 JAVA_ARGS="-Xms2G -Xmx2G -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.io.tmpdir=_/var/tmp_"

Add the following line to /etc/foreman-installer/custom-hiera.yaml:

 puppet::server_jvm_extra_args: '-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.io.tmpdir=_/var/tmp_'

Restart the Puppet server:

 systemctl restart puppetserver

Go back and re-check with foreman-maintain:

 foreman-maintain upgrade check --target-version 6.4 --whitelist="disk-performance"

All good, lets upgrade:

  foreman-maintain upgrade run --target-version 6.4 --whitelist="disk-performance"

Confirm with “y” at the next two questions that you wish to continue. It is reminding you to make a backup and that the next phase is going to change stuff!

Optional, install the OpenSCAP content:

 foreman-rake foreman_openscap:bulk_upload:default

Post Upgrade Tasks

Review the taks in the upgrade guide:

• Post-upgrade Tasks

I chose to only do the “Removing the Previous Version of the Satellite Tools Repository” task for now.

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