How to access extended life cycle support repositories for RHEL 7 in Red Hat Satellite 6?

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Support (Unlimited Guests) subscription has enabled with account.
    However not able to see Extended Life cycle Support repositories for RHEL 7 in host registered with Red Hat Satellite 6.

Resolution

  • Follow below steps to enable Extended Life Cycle Support Repositories for RHEL 7 in Red Hat Satellite web-ui
    and make it available for host.

    1. Add the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Support subscription to the manifest:

         Login to *Satellite web ui* -> Click on *Content* -> *Subscriptions* -> *Add subscriptions* -> Add atleast 1 
quantity of `Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Support subscription` from the list provided on this 
page and click submit.

    2. Enable "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (RPMs)" and "Red Hat Enterprise Linux
      7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support - Optional (RPMs)" repositories on your Red Hat Satellite:

      Satellite webUI => Content => Red Hat Repositories => Search for 'rhel-7-server-els-rpms'

    3. Sync repositories in Red Hat Satellite web-ui:

      Satellite WebUI -> Content -> Sync Status -> select the repository -> synchronize now

    4. Once done with complete synchronization of repository, add the Extended Life Cycle Support repositories to content-view and publish the new version of the respective content view:

      Satellite GUI --> Content --> Content Views --> Click on the content view --> Repositories -> select and add the Extended Life Cycle Support repository -> Click on Publish New Version

    5. Promote the content view to the life-cycle environment: 

      Satellite GUI --> Content --> Content Views --> Click on the content view --> Promote the latest version of the content view to the required life-cycle environment by clicking on Promote

    6. Check if the product certificate for ELS is present under /etc/pki/product/ directory on clientVM registered to Red Hat Satellite:

      [root@clientVM ~]# ll /etc/pki/product
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4489 Nov  9 20:49 204.pem    <<<<<

      If not, then, generate the ELS 204.pem certificate file for RHEL 7.9 from This content is not included.Red Hat Product Certificates and place it under /etc/pki/product on clientVM.

    7. Run below commands on host machine:

      # subscription-manager refresh
# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-els-rpms
# yum clean all
# yum repolist -v

Root Cause

  • Extended Life Cycle Support Repositories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 were not enabled on Red Hat Satellite and Hence it was not available for content hosts registered.

Diagnostic Steps

  • List enabled Repositories on Red Hat Satellite with below command:

    # hammer repository list

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (RPMs) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support - Optional (RPMs) should be listed.

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