System information

Can I use t h e exp o rt t o o ls o n my pro d u ct ion Sat ellite 5.6 syst em?
Yes, assuming that you run the tools with sufficient disk space. Disk space will vary, from 20 MB
to several Gigabytes, depending on the total amount of non-Red Hat content stored on the
Satellite in /var/satel l i te/red hat/ and being selected for export by the export tool. When
exporting custom or cloned channels, the tool searches for non-Red Hat content associated
with the channels, to copy into the export archive. Other than some short-term CPU and memory
consumption, the tool only performs read-only file system, and SQL queries on the database to
gather data, write the resulting data to files on disk, and create a tar archive of the data.
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3.5. Preparing for t he T ransit ion
The transition tools and process assume the following conditions are true:
A fully-functional Satellite 5.6 instance exists.
Satellite 6 has been correctly installed on a new machine.
Direct connectivity between the Satellite 5 and Satellite 6 instances cannot be guaranteed.
The Satellite 6 instance contains a manifest that enables access to the same content that the
Satellite 5 instance accesses, for the same number of client machines.
The Satellite 6 instance has already synchronized the desired Red Hat content. The transition
tools make every attempt not to copy Red Hat content from Satellite 5 to Satellite 6.
The export tools execute on the Satellite 5 system. This is necessary to allow direct access to the
Satellite 5 database, repositories, and existing tools such as spacewal k-repo rt.
The import tools execute on the Satellite 6 system, for similar reasons.
The result of importing Satellite 5 data is n o t a perfectly-configured Satellite 6 instance. The goal
is to alleviate as much set-up as reasonably possible, given the differences in data-models and
functionality between Satellite 5 and 6.
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3.5.1. Preparing t he Satellit e 5 Server for T ransit ion
Preparing your Satellite 5 server for transition requires that you subscribe to some specific channels
and download extra packages to ensure that your transition runs smoothly. This is described in the
following sections.
Installing t h e Lat est Repo rting Packages
Install the latest spacewalk-reports and spacewalk-utils packages from the Satellite 5.6 channel.
# yum install spacewalk-reports spacewalk-utils
The latest spacewalk-report package provides additional reports which are used by the transition
tools:
Red Hat Sat ellit e 6 .0 T ransit ion G uid e
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