How to synchronize different contents using hammer CLI into Red Hat Capsule 6

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6
• Red Hat Capsule 6

Issue

• What hammer command can be used to synchronize the following contents into Red Hat Capsule 6?

  • All content from Red Hat Satellite 6 environment
  • A specific Lifecycle Environment
  • One specific Content View from a specific Lifecycle Environment
  • One specific Repository from a Content View and Lifecycle Environment

Resolution

• Before proceeding, execute following hammer commands on the Satellite server to obtain the capsule_id, repository_id, lifecycle_environment_id, and content_view_id to replace against $values in the following procedures:

  # hammer capsule list
  # hammer content-view list
  # hammer repository list
  # hammer lifecycle-environment list
  

• Following command can be used to synchronize:

  • All content from Red Hat Satellite 6 environment to Red Hat Capsule 6:

    # hammer capsule content synchronize --id $capsule_id
    

  • A specific Lifecycle Environment from Red Hat Satellite 6 environment to Red Hat Capsule 6:

    # hammer capsule content synchronize  --id $capsule_id  --lifecycle-environment-id $lifecycle_environment_id
    

  • One specific Content View from a specific Lifecycle Environment from Red Hat Satellite 6 environment to Red Hat Capsule 6:

    # hammer capsule content synchronize --id $capsule_id --content-view-id $content_view_id --lifecycle-environment-id  $lifecycle_environment_id
    

  • One specific Repository from a Content View and Lifecycle Environment from Red Hat Satellite 6 environment to Red Hat Capsule 6:

    # hammer capsule content synchronize --id $capsule_id --repository-id $repository_id --content-view-id $content_view_id --lifecycle-environment-id $lifecycle_environment_id
    

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