Currently Satellite in version 6.1.7 does not provide an UEFI capable PXE / DHCP Server. There is a workaround in place but unfortunately after each update to the next Satellite version all these settings will be overridden. The workaround is described in this Red Hat KCS article.

Currently there seems to be a bug in Satellite 6 (6.1.6). I`ve created an Activation Key and attached a “Release Version” on the Details tab to the Activation Key. I also configured all other needed things like product content, subscriptions and so on.

If I now copy this Activation Key the Release Version seems to be present at the copied Activation Key. But when I try to install a new client with the copied Activation Key which for example has 7.2 as a release version then the client does not configure the release version via subscription-manager correctly during provisioning. This leads to the problem that the client is not able to access the correct RHEL Yum repositories on Satellite.

If I open the copied Activation Key again, delete the release version and attach the release version again, then the client can successfully access all needed Yum repositories with this specific release version during provisioning.

I filled an appropriate BZ entry (BZ 1311846).

Today Red Hat shipped Satellite 6.1.7. The corresponding RHSA for Satellite is RHSA-2016:0174, for Satellite Tools it is RHBA-2016:0173.

Happy upgrading 🙂

Please find the Red Hat Satellite 6 product page here with release notes and more relevant informations.