Unable to Install the Satellite inventory upload plugin

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.6 and above

Issue

  • When following the instructions to install the Satellite Inventory Upload Plugin, no packages are being installed using provided the yum command:

        # yum install tfm-rubygem-foreman_inventory_upload-*
    Loaded plugins: foreman-protector, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager

    WARNING: Excluding 12191 updates due to foreman-protector. 
    Use foreman-maintain packages install/update <package> 
   to safely install packages without restrictions.

    No package tfm-rubygem-foreman_inventory_upload-* available.
    Error: Nothing to do

Resolution

  • Starting from Satellite 6.6., installing a package should be done using the foreman-maintain/satellite-maintain.

  • The proper instructions for Satellite 6.6. are the following:

     # satellite-maintain packages install tfm-rubygem-foreman_rh_cloud

Note: This will trigger satellite-installer to run and restart services, a certain period of downtime is to be expected during the operation.

Root Cause

  • Satellite 6.6 introduced a locking process to prevent an arbitrary yum transactions that could lead to inconsistency in Satellite. For this reason, installing a package requires different steps.
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