System information

An existing, up-to-date Red Hat Enterprise Linux client systems registered to SAT5.6.
An existing, up-to-date Satellite 6 server. In this example, this system is called "SAT6".
Manifests created for each Organization on SAT5.6, downloaded to
username@SAT6:/tmp/manifests, and renamed to ORG_NAME. zi p, to match the names of your
organizations.
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3.7 .1 0 .2 . Assum pt io ns
The system migration process makes several assumptions as part of the task of moving your
Satellite 5 systems to Satellite 6:
The hammer i mpo rt co ntent-ho st command has completed successfully.
An RPM file containing a mapping between Satellite 5 SID s and matching Satellite 6 content-host
UUID s has been created.
The above-mentioned RPM file has been installed on the Satellite 5 server.
The sat5to6 package and dependencies have been installed on each client system. This package
provides the sat5to 6 command, which performs the following tasks on the system where it is run:
Queries its Satellite 5 parent for a consumer ID.
Loads the appropriate PEM files onto the client machine, based on the Satellite 5 channels to
which the machine is subscribed.
Registers the host on which it is run to a specified Satellite 6 server, attaching it to the content
host UUID specified by its Satellite 5 parent.
Manages the "retired" Satellite 5 profile in one of three ways, as specified by the user:
keep: Do nothing. Retain the Satellite 5 profile in its original state.
unentitle: Retain the Satellite 5 profile but remove all subscriptions and entitlements
(default).
purge: Delete the Satellite 5 profile completely.
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3.7 .1 0 .3. Perfo rming t he T ransit io n
This section describes the actual process for transitioning your Satellite 5 client systems to Satellite 6
client hosts, and updating the subscription configuration accordingly.
This section makes the following assumptions:
You have successfully used the spacewal k-expo rt command on your Satellite 5 server to
export all required entities.
You have copied the resulting spacewal k_expo rt. tar. g z file to the /tmp directory on your
Satellite 6 server, and extracted it into the same directory.
You have successfully run the hammer i mpo rt al l command on the Satellite 6 server, and
followed the resulting instructions to build the required RPM file.
⁠Chapt er 3. T ransit ioning fro m Sat ellit e 5 t o 6
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