Questions[katello](server)

I have configured foreman with katello scenario and previously configured and synced some repositories and content views (for Red Hat 5 server).

Suddenly, after running some synchronization tasks, the logs returns:

2016-12-30 17:12:14 0b8fc582 [app] [E] RuntimeError: 
There was an issue with the backend service pulp: 404 Resource Not Found.

# hammer ping

candlepin:

    Status:          ok
    Server Response: Duration: 112ms

candlepin_auth:

    Status:          ok
    Server Response: Duration: 79ms

pulp:

    Status:          FAIL
    Server Response:

foreman_tasks:

    Status:          ok
    Server Response: Duration: 40ms

I searched on google, community forums and mailing lists with no accurate results, also restarted all included services.

How can I workaround or solve this issue?

Software Info:

Foreman version: foreman-1.13.2-1 Katello version: katello-3.2.1-1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

We have Foreman 1.12.4 w Katello 3.1 installed on Centos 7.2

After a small error with pip in which yum-controlled software was updated and broke our Katello install, I rolled back as best I could and set off a fresh sync on all products.

Some products worked fine, but about half return this error

RPM1004: Error retrieving metadata: Not found

I can't see anything online that would suggest a solution to this error. There have been some suggested solutions - for eg "install the errata", which would be possible except the Katello product is one that won't syncronise.

Does anyone know how I might go about syncing against the repos? Here is one of the repos that isn't syncing - it looks like there is metadata in there (by which I mean, there is a repodata dir with files in it).

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/3.1/pulp/el7/x86_64/

To be honest I'm a bit lost - I understand the error message (can't find the metadata) but I can't find a solution - it is as simple as finding the metadata and putting it in the right place on the filesystem somewhere, or is it more complex than that?

Is there some way how i can manage packages in debian using foreman, for example when new updates are available it will tell me and i have to approve it first before installing... i checked Katello but that is just for Red hat and fedora...or pulp... i would also like to have some dashboard (ideally in foreman), i chcecked apt-dater but it works only in terminal... Or is there some good puppet module i could use? I am managing around 100 servers

I'm using RedHat Satellite 6.1.1, and am successfully syncing Puppet modules from a local forge into the Katello part of Satellite.

However, I'm not sure how to go about syncing my Hiera data.

Obviously I'd like to leverage the lifecycle management features of Katello to control the data, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Do I add the Puppet git repository as a source? Surely that would mess up the available puppet modules?

I'm using RH Satellite 6, and have built a katello capsule. I've synced a very specific environment/content view over to the capsule.

I'm trying to build a node from the capsule to test things out, and it seems to have pulled down something wrong at the start and is refusing to fix itself!

Useful output:

[root@captest ~]# subscription-manager environments --org=MYORG --username=admin
+-------------------------------------------+
          Environments
+-------------------------------------------+
Name:        VALIDATION/VALIDATION
Description:

Name:        VAGRANT/VALIDATION
Description:

Name:        Library/VALIDATION
Description:

Name:        POC/RHEL7
Description:

Name:        Library/RHEL7
Description:

Name:        POC/RHEL6
Description:

Name:        Library/RHEL6
Description:

Name:        Library
Description:

The one I want is VALIDATION/VALIDATION, which is synced to the capsule.

However:

[root@captest ~]# subscription-manager repos

+----------------------------------------------------------+
    Available Repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Repo ID:   rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
Repo Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Optional (RPMs)
Repo URL:  https://capsule-core-1.intranet.net/pulp/repos/MYORG/POC/RHEL7/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/$bas
           earch/optional/os
Enabled:   0

...which appears to be using the POC/RHEL7 environment.

Any ideas? I'm sure I've tried rebuilding the node and checking the environment, but I'll happily try that again.