How to change Life Cycle Environment and Content Views for Content Hosts using hammer command line and from Satellite Web UI?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

  • What are the steps to change the Content View and Life Cycle Environment to another for a specific content host to fetch the repositories.?
  • How to change Life Cycle Environment and Content Views for Content Hosts using the hammer command line and from Satellite Web UI?

Resolution

  • On Red Hat Satellite 6

  • First, identify the available organizations, content views, and lifecycle environments. Replace the organization name in the examples with your own:

      # hammer organization list

  # hammer content-view list --organization=My_Organization

  # hammer lifecycle-environment list --organization=My_Organization

  • To change the Lifecycle Environment and Content View for a specific content host using the hammer command line, run:

    # hammer host update --name client.example.com --lifecycle-environment "ENV_NAME" --content-view "CV_NAME" --organization-id <ORG_ID>

  • Note : Parameter --organization ORG_NAME can be used in place of --organization-id ORG_ID if you wish to use organization name instead of ID.

  • To achieve the same through Satellite Web UI:

      To achieve the same through Satellite Web UI:

  Navigate to Hosts → Content Hosts

  Select the hosts to be changed

  Click on Select Action → Change Lifecycle environment

  Choose the environment and associated content view you want the system to get

  Click Assign → Yes

  • To Apply the Changes on the Content Host:

    • Once the Lifecycle Environment and Content View are updated in Satellite, refresh the client host to pull new repository details:
      # subscription-manager refresh

  # yum clean all
    • Optional (manual cache removal):
    # rm -rfv /var/cache/{yum,dnf}/*

This ensures that stale metadata and cached packages are cleared, allowing the host to fetch the latest repositories from Satellite.

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