If you plan to deploy RHEL guests with Satellite 6 and your DNS server of choice is Microsoft DNS than Satellite 6 is also able to create / delete appropriate DNS entries for newly created hosts automatically via foremen-proxy on Microsoft DNS. This article describes on how to configure both Satellite 6 and Microsoft DNS.
Category Archives: The Foreman
Satellite 6 => Quit long running Foreman tasks
In some cases it could happen that a Foreman task in Satellite never ends without throwing any error message. In this case you can quit tasks with foreman-rake console.
BE CAREFUL IF YOU PERFORM THE FOLLOWING TASKS
The following tasks can destroy you database. So be careful. Continue reading
Foreman Template writing
Foreman uses common ERB style templating. Foreman templates consists of a mixture of Bash scripts and appropriate macros and functions. You can find a list of built-in macros and functions here. Within such macro you can use further Ruby code. For example to extract the last digits og an IP address you can use the following macro:
LAST_DIGIT=< %=@host.ip.to_s.split('.')[-1]%>
Where @host.ip is a built-in macro in Foreman (see link above), to_s is Ruby code and means “convert into string”, split wherever you find a “.” and read the output reverse and take the last value (“-1”).
If you want to check if a template will render correctly for an appropriate host you can open your template in your browser:
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