Keeping Satellite up to date

[dweff]

@jessescott 

Two questions:

1. What am I supposed to do to keep my Satellite installation up to date between releases?
2. How often should I plan on upgrading to the latest Satellite release?

Running "dnf update" results in "WARNING: Excluding 50477 packages due to foreman-protector."  I opened a support ticket and was told to run "satellite-maintain packages update".  That command results in its own dire warning message.  I was also informed that Satellite 6.11 (the version we used in the course) product support has ended.

Should I not run any patching/updates on the Satellite server, but just plan on migrating to the latest version every year?

Apparently my Google-foo is very weak on the Red Hat site, so any help you can provide pointing me towards the best practices for maintaining my server would be greatly appreciated!!

[dweff]

After a week of testing, I can neither confirm nor deny that "satellite-maintain upgrade run" will update the Satellite installation to the latest patch point release without upgrading to the next minor version release.  When installing Satellite it will always update to the latest point release available - even when explicitly installing an older version using the command "dnf install satellite-6.11.3-1.el8sat -y"  When I log in, it's been updated to 6.11.5.7.

[Zohair]

Hi

I want to update ruby package in the rhel satellite but foreman-maintain coammnd is not allowing me to do so. Please advise