Let’s learn how to create an organization and location on Foreman/Satellite server using the hammer command-line-interface. In this example, I’m going to create an organization called: Operation and assign its location to Boston. On the Foreman server, excute the following commands: [root@foreman ~]# hammer organization create --name Operations Organization created. [root@foreman ~]# hammer location create --name Boston Location created. [root@foreman ~]# hammer organization add-location --name Operations \ > --location Boston The location has been associated. Let’s verify it: ...

When I setup Foreman (Satellite) server, I didn’t have Ansible support enabled. Here is how it can be done later on. If we only need Ansible support, it’s sufficient to just run this command: # foreman-installer \ --enable-foreman-plugin-ansible \ --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible Just a note for myself, I also need Remote Execution enabled if I want to run Ansible playbooks as Job Templates. # foreman-installer \ --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution \ --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh Note that the remote execution feature is enabled by default on Foreman/Satellite server. The Smart Proxy or Capsule server, on the other hand, must be specifically enabled with the above installed command. ...

The steps to build an RPM package: Download the source code Create the spec file (use the rpmdev-newspec command) Build the package (use the rpmbuild command) GPG sign the package (use the rpmsign command) Test the package (use rpm -qip command) In this post, I’m going to learn to create an RPM package of fpaste-4.0.1.1.tar.gz on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (variant). First we need to ensure the necessary packages are installed: ...

I need to use git on command line on macOS 11 (Big Sur), and git comes with command line developer tools. Here is how it can be done on macOS: ❯ xcode-select --install xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools On a side note, I notice that every time there is an update to Big Sur, I also have to re-install this Xcode Command Line Tools. Ref: kamermanpr/install-xcodeCLT-homebrew-git.md

One of my Red Hat servers is behind proxy with no access to the outside world. This box is registered to a Satellite server to receive software updates. I want to install Zabbix server on this server using the packages from Zabbix upstream directly. To do this, I need to set the proxy for the Zabbix’s repository. There are a few ways to do this. For my purpose, the best place is to set proxy=proxy_server directly in the .repo file. ...