November 18

Linux: Red Hat Satellite with VMWARE

Refresh satellites knowledge of the vm servers on the ESXI hosts
systemctl stop virt-who
virt-who --one-shot 
systemctl start virt-who

Configuration of virt-who on the satellite server:
/etc/virt-who.d/one.conf

[one]
type=esx
hypervisor_id=hostname
server=vcenter.companyname.com
username=domainname\username
encrypted_password=5cd54deb8b1ebfb61fa04a9512bd97ed
owner=OrganizationalNameUsedInSatellite
env=Library
filter_hosts=esxidev.companyname.com,esxidev2.companyname.com,esxidev3.companyname.com,esxidev4.companyname.com,esxidev5.companyname.com,esxidev6.companyname.com,esxiprod1,esxiprod2.companyname.com,esxiprod3,esxiprod4.companyname.com,esxiprod5.companyname.com,esxiprod6.companyname.com,esxidev.companyname.com,esxidev1.companyname.com
rhsm_hostname=servername.companyname.com
rhsm_username=admin
rhsm_encrypted_password=456adc0cafa8ed065c021ce32bf64273
rhsm_prefix=/rhsm


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Posted November 18, 2021 by Timothy Conrad in category "Linux

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