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Satellite - A better way to publish and promote?
Hi, folks,
My approach to publish and promote has been very simple:
hammer content-view publish --id 6 --major 1 --minor `date "+%j"` --description "The `date "+%d-%b-%Y"` (`date "+Day %j"`) version"
hammer content-view version promote --content-view-id 6 --version 1.`date --date="2 weeks ago" "+%j"` --to-lifecycle-environment-id 4 --organization-id 1
hammer content-view version promote etc.
But the the hammer content-view publish always times out, whereupon the hammer content-view promotes all fail.
Clearly, I'm going about this wrong. What is the better way?
Thanks,
John A


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OK, first things first.
Which Satellite version?

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A valid question! I'm on Satellite 6.8.6, I think point 2.
I've gotten a fix for the time-out issue from Red Hat support. It's working so far and I'm happy.


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It would be nice to post the solution here so as other members can benefit too!
Regarding your initial question, I had a similar solution for a client a few years back but on a much older Satellite. I was experiencing the same issues as you. In my case, the solution was to use variables and quotes in the script.
In the last year though, I moved away from scripts. The foreman-ansible modules are supported and they are much better on handling those cases.
More information about them, you can find in the https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/1.2/html/getting_s...
and of course the https://cloud.redhat.com/

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Hi, PeterTselios,
Good point!
The solution the Red Hat engineer pointed me toward is How to setup hammer API request timeout on Satellite 6.
I hope that's useful,
John A


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Mighnot be fully answer to your question, but I'd share my experience. We have been using ansible to automate content promotion using satellite ansible modules. I have been using this method suuccessfully over a year.
Here's example code for ansible:
1. Get list of content-views you want to publish:
- name: Pre-tasks | Find all CVs redhat.satellite.resource_info: username: "{{ sat_user }}" password: "{{ sat_password }}" server_url: "https://{{ sat_hostname }}" organization: "{{ sat_org }}" resource: content_views validate_certs: no register: raw_list_cvs - name: Pre-tasks | Get resource information set_fact: list_all_cvs: "{{ raw_list_cvs['resources'] | json_query(jmesquery) | list }}" vars: jmesquery: "[*].{name: name, composite: composite, id: id}" - name: Pre-tasks | Extract list of content views set_fact: sat6_content_views_list: "{{ sat6_content_views_list }} + ['{{ item.name }}' ]" loop: "{{ list_all_cvs | reject('search', 'Default_Organization_View') | list }}" when: item.composite == false
2. Publish content to desired Lifecycle environment
- name: Publish content redhat.satellite.content_view_version: username: "{{ sat_user }}" password: "{{ sat_password }}" server_url: "https://{{ sat_hostname }}" content_view: "{{ item }}" organization: "{{ sat_org }}" validate_certs: no description: "{{ sat_publish_description }}" lifecycle_environments: - Library - "{{ sat_env_name }}" loop: "{{ sat6_content_views_list | list }}" loop_control: loop_var: "item" register: cv_publish_sleeper

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Hi, Khamid,
That's very nice! Where would I look for further documentation for this?
Thanks,
John A