Foreman migrate to SCA

Migrate Foreman from a non SCA to SCA enabled Org

Background

When we upgraded to Foreman 3.4 & Katello 4.6 and enabled SCA we got the problem that ALL our servers had ALL repos enabled.

To quickly fix the issue we disabled SCA to investigate.

Solution

The solution we came up with was this script: generate_hammer_commands.sh

How to

Make sure you have following packages installed

• jq
• hammer-cli

1. Disable SCA
2. Run the script: bash generate_hammer_commands.sh
3. Enable SCA
4. Up to Foreman 3.7 enabling SCA made Foreman enable all repos on all servers by default this was fixed in Foreman 3.7 #36301
   • If all your servers have all repos enabled you can disable them by doing a bulk edit using webui Hosts > Content Host > Select all hosts > Use Dropdown Select Action > Manage Repository sets > Mark all repos > Reset do default.
   • If all your repos are already disabled you can skip this step and go to 5.
5. Run the new file created: bash hammer_commands.txt. It will make use of hammer cli to enable all repos on that was enabled before SCA was enabled on each server.