replacing your satellite certificate

1. login to the Red Hat Customer Portal - self-service Satellite Certificate generation tool

   https://access.redhat.com/management/distributors/

2. Generate/update your certificate. further information can be found here

   https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/477863

3. Download your new certificate

4. Install/Activate the certificate

5. Restart the satellite server

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[root@server ~]# rhn-satellite-activate   -vvv --rhn-cert=/home/seamusmurray/MySat.xml
RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com
HTTP_PROXY: None
HTTP_PROXY_USERNAME: None
HTTP_PROXY_PASSWORD: <password>
CA_CERT: /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT
Checking cert XML sanity and GPG signature: '/usr/bin/validate-sat-cert.pl --keyring /etc/webapp-keyring.gpg     /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-entitlement-cert.xml-XXXX'
Database connectioned initialized: refer to /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
Attempting local RHN Certificate push (and therefore activation)
Executing: remote XMLRPC deactivation (if necessary).
Executing: remote XMLRPC activation call.
Executing: '/usr/bin/satellite-sync --list-channels --ca-cert /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT'



[root@server ~]# /usr/sbin/rhn-satellite restart
Shutting down spacewalk services...
Stopping RHN Taskomatic...
Waiting for RHN Taskomatic to exit...
Waiting for RHN Taskomatic to exit...
Waiting for RHN Taskomatic to exit...
Stopped RHN Taskomatic.
Stopping cobbler daemon:                                   [  OK  ]
Stopping rhn-search...
Waiting for rhn-search to exit...
Waiting for rhn-search to exit...
Waiting for rhn-search to exit...
Stopped rhn-search.
Stopping MonitoringScout ...
[ OK ]
Stopping Monitoring ...
[ OK ]
Shutting down osa-dispatcher:                              [  OK  ]
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping tomcat5:                                          [  OK  ]
Terminating jabberd processes ...
Stopping s2s:                                              [  OK  ]
Stopping c2s:                                              [  OK  ]
Stopping sm:                                               [  OK  ]
Stopping router:                                           [  OK  ]
Done.
Starting spacewalk services...
Initializing jabberd processes ...
Starting router:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting sm:                                               [  OK  ]
Starting c2s:                                              [  OK  ]
Starting s2s:                                              [  OK  ]
Starting tomcat5:                                          [  OK  ]
Waiting for tomcat to be ready ...
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting osa-dispatcher:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting Monitoring ...
[ OK ]
Starting MonitoringScout ...
[ OK ]
Starting rhn-search...
Starting cobbler daemon:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting RHN Taskomatic...
Done.