Can content view be published/promoted parallelly in Red Hat Satellite 6?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x

Issue

• Need to publish/promote one Content View parallelly to different life-cycle environments.

Resolution

• It is not possible to concurrently promote or publish Content View (CV) in the Satellite
• One can publish/promote different CVs concurrently, but concurrent actions of the same CV is not allowed

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

Root Cause

• Locks make sure resources like repositories are not altered simultaneously, by multiple tasks, to avoid corruption.
• Locks are handled by foreman tasks and its plugins are not supposed to be altered by users.
• If a task is waiting because of a lock taken by other task, it is intentional logic and cannot be skipped or overridden.

Diagnostic Steps

• Check the locks being taken by a task on Satellite WebUI:-

  • Go to Monitor > Tasks > Search for Content View Publish/Promote Task > Locks.

Note :- The exclusive and non-exclusive locks indicates the relation of the task with the resource.

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