Puppet agents force dozens of errors: “Could not set ‘file’ on ensure: incorrect header check”
Recently I had the problem that my homelab’s Linux machines managed by Puppet were…
Filed underRed Hat Satellite 6
System management with Foreman/Katello – Part 2: Products, Repositories and Content Views
The last post of this series introduced the software projects Foreman and Katello. If you followed the instructions,…
Forcefully stop hanging Foreman tasks
After a system crash I recently had the problem that Foreman had several orphaned…
Short tip: my Foreman/Katello blog post series
I’m currently working on a blog post series about Foreman, Katello and Red Hat…
System management with Foreman/Katello – Part 1: Introduction and installation
The last couple of years I spent a lot of time in managing Linux…
Report VMware vSphere RHEL guests to RHSM using Red Hat Satellite 6.2
If you’re utilizing Red Hat Satellite 6 for managing virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances, you will need…
Monitoring Foreman, Katello and Red Hat Satellite 6
Foreman, Katello and Red Hat Satellite 6 users have multiple possibilities to monitor infrastructure health.…
Manage VMware Photon OS containers with Foreman and Red Hat Satellite 6
Photon OS is minimalistic RPM-based Linux distribution which is focussed on running Docker containers. It was optimized…
Short tip: remove Katello completely
If you’re testing the nightly builds of Katello, you might come into a situation…
Short tip: Updating Pulp database after upgrading Katello
After upgrading Katello recently, I stumbled upon the following error when accessing the administration…