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Red Hat Satellite 6.5 -> 6.6 Upgrade

Standard warning do not do this in a production environment, follow official documentation, always make a backup, yadda, yadda, yadda, so on and so forth.

Anyways so I had an install of Red Hat Satellite to manage some of my personal work labs that was running version 6.5.3. In this post I will detail how I upgraded my Satellite install to version 6.6.3.

First let’s check what versions of Satellite are available to us.

sudo foreman-maintain upgrade list-versions

If all goes well we should get available versions of which 6.6 we will be choosing. Next we will want to run a check to make sure all is well before proceeding with our update.

sudo foreman-maintain upgrade check --target-version 6.6

Install any prerequisites you maybe missing and if the check comes back successfully then we may kick off the upgrade process.

sudo foreman-maintain upgrade run --target-version 6.6

Make sure you confirm the upgrade process when prompted to do so. If all goes well run this final command.

sudo hash -d foreman-maintain service 2> /dev/null

You should have a fully upgraded Red Hat Satellite server now running version 6.6!

-Mike