Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.1 - RELEASE NOTES, Installation Manual

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Chapter 6. Importing and Synchronizing
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The
RHN Satellite Exporter
offers several command line options. To use them, insert the option and
appropriate value after the
rhn-satellite-exporter
command.
Option Description
-d, --dir=
Place the exported information into this directory.
-c CHANNEL_LABEL
,
--
channel= CHANNEL_LABEL
Process data for this specific channel (specified
by label) only. NOTE: the channel's *label* is
NOT the same as the channel's *name*.
--list-channels
List all available channels and exit.
--list-steps
List all of the steps that rhn-satellite-exporter
takes while exporting data. These can be used
as values for --step.
-p --print-configuration
Print the configuration and exit.
--print-report
Print a report to the terminal when the export is
complete.
--no-rpms
Do not retrieve actual RPMs.
--no-packages
Do not export RPM metadata.
--no-errata
Do not process Errata information.
--no-kickstarts
Do not process kickstart data (provisioning only).
--debug-level= LEVEL_NUMBER
Override the amount of messaging sent to log
files and generated on the screen set in
/etc/
rhn/rhn.conf
, 0-6 (2 is default).
--start-date=START_DATE
The start date limit that the last modified
dates are compared against. Must be in the
format YYYYMMDDHH24MISS (for example,
20071225123000
)
--end-date=END_DATE
The end date limit that the last modified dates
are compared against. Must be typed in the
format YYYYMMDDHH24MISS (for example,
20071231235900
)
--make-isos=MAKE_ISOS
Create a channel dump ISO directory called
satellite-isos
(for example,
--make-
isos=cd
or
dvd
--email
Email a report of what was exported and what
errors may have occurred.
--traceback-mail
Alternative email address for --email.
--db= DB
Include alternate database connect string:
username/password@SID.
Table 6.1. RHN Satellite Exporter Options
6.1.2. Exporting
To perform a
RHN Satellite Exporter
export, the following prerequisites must be met:
• The RHN Satellite Server installation must have been performed successfully.