Issued:
2020-10-27
Updated:
2020-10-27

RHBA-2020:4365 - Satellite 6.8 Satellite Maintenance Release

Synopsis

Satellite 6.8 Satellite Maintenance Release

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Updated Satellite 6.8 packages that fix several satellite-maintain issues are now available

Description

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

This update adds the following features:

1861256 [RFE] Check for global http proxy in environemnt 1827176 [RFE] Clean up old Kernel and initramfs files from tftp/boot via satellite-maintain 1803968 [RFE] EPEL repository check should be renamed to non-Red Hat repository check 1649329 [RFE] foreman-maintain should be self-updating 1535466 [RFE] foreman-maintain support for Capsules 1713194 [RFE] New check - warning when there are many fact names 1827219 [RFE] Remove or Hide the "disk-performance" check in foreman-maintain upgrade since it returns inconsistent results 1726595 [RFE] Speed up the restore process

This update fixes the following bugs:

1836779 "foreman-maintain health check" command failed with error "Error: Unknown Puppet subcommand 'master'" 1754870 "WARNING: Excluding 11574 updates due to foreman-protector." message scared me 1867753 Add check for checkpoint_segments postgres parameter 1824134 Add functionality to generate qpidd and ActiveMQ required queues when restoring from online backup 1869176 Add self upgrade foreman-maintain package support to list-versions sub command as well. 1832154 Add support for Satellite 6.7 clone 1817364 Add support for Satellite 6.7 to 6.8 upgrade in foreman-maintain. 1874103 Capsule upgrade playbook does not return all stdout in case of failure 1852817 Error "undefined method any?' for nil:NilClass" while running foreman-maintain packages update command. 1769459 foreman-maintain backup failed on infoblox configured satellite/capsule 1849941 foreman-maintain enables rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-6.8-beta-rpms repo instead of rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-6-beta-rpms for beta scenario. 1762302 foreman-maintain leaves fio test-files after running disk-benchmark 1847189 foreman-maintain restore fails on large postgresql databases 1733287 foreman-maintain should check for epel repo first 1857745 foreman-maintain should have a clear signal that it only performed a self-update for automation 1650167 foreman-maintain should not use spinner when stdout is not terminal 1854756 foreman-maintain snapshot backup is broken. 1741520 foreman-maintain's message about EPEL repository presence is misleading, when you're an idiot 1679129 foreman-maintian service fails with "couldn't find HOME environment -- exp anding ~' (ArgumentError)" 1860804 Inconsistent input format for foreman-maintain packages install/update command. 1859312 Offline backups are not restored properly, content is missing 1825947 Red Hat Satellite upgrade fails from 6.3.x to 6.4.x with an error undefined local variable or method `server_version' for satellite 1869279 Satellite 6.6 to 6.7 upgrade fails on server-ping for rubygem-foreman_maintain-0.6.8-1 1874164 Satellite backup utility with snapshot & incremental options create the full backup 1869731 satellite maintain should enable Ansible 2.9 for Red Hat Sat/Cap 6.8 1838382 Satellite upgrade job failed due to "Too many scenarios match {:tags=>[:upgrade_scenario, :pre_upgrade_checks]}" error 1861344 Scenarios present inside satellite-maintain content should be restricted 1879850 Setting fact failed in the satellite clone with template error 1811025 Some unwanted warning messages dumps(Option --environment-id is deprecated. Use --lifecycle-environment-id instead) while restoring customer database 1825841 Updating rubygem-foreman_maintain package using "satellite-maintain packages" command should not execute installer at the end

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • satellite-clone-1.6.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm
  • rubygem-foreman_maintain-0.6.13-1.el7sat.src.rpm
  • satellite-clone-1.6.1-1.el7sat.noarch.rpm
  • rubygem-foreman_maintain-0.6.13-1.el7sat.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information