How to install and configure hammer cli on any remote clients of Red Hat Satellite or Capsule 6.X ?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite/Capsule 6.X
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

• How to install and configure "hammer cli" on a client of Redhat Satellite/Capsule 6.X?

• Will the client host be requiring a "Satellite Infrastructure subscription" attached?

Resolution

• Make sure the client host is properly registered with the Satellite / Capsule server and has a valid RHEL subscription.

• Synchronize the mentioned repositories on your Red Hat Satellite server and enable these repositories on the client host.
  - rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-6.X-rpms
  - rhel-7-server-rpms
  - rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

• If the client host is registered with a Red Hat Capsule server, make sure to have those repositories synced properly in your Capsule server as well, so that further those can be enabled on the client host.

• To install "hammer cli" on a host, execute the command as mentioned below.

  # yum install tfm-rubygem-hammer_cli_katello tfm-rubygem-hammer_cli_csv -y
  

• Perform the required changes in the hammer configuration file /etc/hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml as listed.
  - At line 6 - change localhost to your satellite server's Fully Qualified Domain Name.
  - You can mention the password on Line 10 after uncommenting it as well.

• For more details please refer to - Standalone Use of Hammer.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x hammer Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x hammer-related Issues

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