Satellite 6 How to enable automatic task cleanup

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

• The Red Hat Satellite 6 installer has a new feature (introduced in 6.3) to automate the cleanup of old tasks, how do I enable this?

Resolution

• With the release of Red Hat Satellite 6.3, the installer now has a new feature to enable a cronjob to automatically remove old tasks

• To enable this cronjob, run the installer with the following additional parameters:

    # satellite-installer --foreman-plugin-tasks-automatic-cleanup true --foreman-plugin-tasks-cron-line "00 15 * * *"
  

• The value of the --foreman-plugin-tasks-cron-line can be adjust to the desired time and should adhere to the crontab specification. See man 5 crontab for more details.

• To change the period of tasks to keep (i.e. delete tasks older that a certain number of days), please update /etc/foreman/plugins/foreman-tasks.yaml

• For more information on how to manually remove tasks, see Satellite 6.2 tasks cleanup

Root Cause

• In previous versions of Red Hat Satellite this feature is absent.
• This new feature is not enabled by default to avoid unwanted tasks cleanup.

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