Comments on: How to Install Katello on CentOS 7.x

By: John Acar

John Acar — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:25:02 +0000

Worked like a charm…mostly. The installer did not let me change the password on the fly. It did not recognize the user portion. I ran it without and then changed the password the old fashioned way (AKA manually). Onto the configuration!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:59:55 +0000

Hi all,
i am trying install Katello on to RHEL 7 but i end with:
foreman-installer –scenario katello
Executing: foreman-maintain packages is-locked –assumeyes

and still waiting for output. Any idea?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:34:36 +0000

Great article and I was able to install onto CentOS 7.7. Two updates though, step 3(Setup required repos)… I found that I had to install the foreman-release rpm before the katello rpm; katello rpm install failed if that commands ran first. Step 4(Starting Katello)… –foreman-admin commands are now –foreman-initial-admin so now it is…. foreman-initial-username –foreman-admin-password

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:06:27 +0000

In reply to Santosh Garole. Yes, You can manage your Amazon Linux Servers via Katello, You have to Configure Katello on CentOS 7/ RHEL 7 server then register all your Linux servers via activation keys.

By: Santosh Garole

Santosh Garole — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:51:03 +0000

Hello

I do have almost all servers as amazon Linux. Can we manage Amazon Linux using Katello. If yes how do we manage it.

Thanks
Santosh Garole

By: Theo

Theo — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:45:26 +0000

Main problem with SSL on CentOS 7 is that candlepin is apparently old and with the default installation tomcat is not allowed to access postgresql server. This is fixed in newer version of candlepin but that is not what is installed so disabling selinux (setenforce 0) allows install to go through for me. Presumably can audit this to find correct command to use. I also tried to use my own certificates and had host of issues with the SSLCertificateChainFile that is added to apache configuration which makes other parts fail. This might not be part of demo install however so not documenting that other than this might help others pinpoint things to look at. I got through a single pass install by hand editing crt files while install was progressing before apache was restarted but after files were written.

By: Ricardo Hernandez

Ricardo Hernandez — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:47:58 +0000

In reply to Daniel Carrington. Hate to ask again... I'm getting this exact error Centos 7.5 updated to the latest.

By: James Douglas

James Douglas — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:37:54 +0000

Same issue as Daniel Carrington on CentOS 7.5.

By: Daniel Carrington

Daniel Carrington — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:10:41 +0000

I’ve tried installing this several times in several scenarios….AWS EC2 instance, local VM, AWS OpsWorks…and every time, I get as far as running foreman-installer and I always get the same error:

/usr/bin/wget –no-proxy –timeout=30 –tries=40 –wait=20 –retry-connrefused -qO- ‘http://localhost:8080/candlepin/admin/init’ > /var/log/candlepin/cpinit.log 2>&1 && touch /var/lib/candlepin/cpinit_done returned 8 instead of one of [0]

What am I missing here? I don’t see others having this error, so I’m confused. I’m following along with the steps, but still getting this error every time.

Thanks for any help!

By: Anidil Rajendran

Anidil Rajendran — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:13:59 +0000

Thanks for the article Pradeep. I successfully installed on Centos 7.2. It did not work on 7.4 version