Managing packages in orcharhino

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts and select the name of the host.

On the Content tab, Packages displays a list of installed packages.

To see details of a package, select that package.

You can filter these by Library or Default organization.

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

Select your host.

On the Content tab, select the Packages tab.

Select Upgradable from the Status list.

Optional: Get the ID of your host:

$ hammer host list --fields Id,Name

Get a list of upgradable packages of your host:

$ hammer host package list --status upgradable --host-id My_Host_ID

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts,

Select a host.

On the Content tab, click the Repository sets tab.

Click the vertical ellipsis to choose Override to disabled or Override to enabled to disable or enable repositories on hosts.

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

Select a host.

On the Content tab, click the Packages tab.

On the vertical ellipsis icon next to the upgrade button, click Install packages.

In the Install packages window, select the package or packages that you want to install on the host.

Click Install. The orcharhino management UI shows a notification for the remote execution job.

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Content > Content Types > Errata.

Click the name of an erratum you want to apply.

On the to Content Hosts tab, select all hosts that you want to apply errata to.

Click Apply to Hosts and click Confirm.

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Monitor > Jobs.

Select the most recent Install errata job.

Verify that the remote execution to apply errata to all selected host succeeded.

List all errata:

$ hammer erratum list --organization "My_Organization"

Optional: View information of an erratum:

$ hammer erratum info --id My_Erratum_ID

Apply errata to your hosts.

$ hammer job-invocation create \
--feature katello_errata_install \
--inputs errata=My_Erratum_ID_1,My_Erratum_ID_2 \
--search-query "name = host.example.com"

for HOST in hammer --csv --csv-separator "|" host list --search "applicable_errata = My_Erratum_ID" --organization "My_Organization" | tail -n+2 | awk -F "|" '{ print $2 }' ;
do
  echo "== Applying to $HOST ==" ; hammer job-invocation create --feature katello_errata_install --search-query "name = $HOST" --inputs errata=My_Erratum_ID_1,My_Erratum_ID_2 ;
done

Locate the task ID of your errata application in task listing:

$ hammer task list

Inspect the state of the selected task:

$ hammer task progress --id My_Task_ID

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

Select a host.

On the Content tab, click the Packages tab.

Select Upgradable from the Status list.

In the Upgradable to column, select the package version that you want to upgrade to.

Select the packages you want to upgrade.

Click Upgrade. The orcharhino management UI shows a notification for the remote execution job.

In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

Select a host.

On the Content tab, click the Packages tab.

Click the vertical ellipsis for the package you want to remove.

Select Remove. The orcharhino management UI shows a notification for the remote execution job.

Specify the API request body in the JSON format. For example:

{
  "job_invocation" : {
    "concurrency_control" : {
      "concurrency_level" : 100
    },
    "feature" : "katello_package_install",
    "inputs" : {
      "package" : "nano vim"
    },
    "scheduling" : {
      "start_at" : "2023-09-21T19:00:00+00:00",
      "start_before" : "2023-09-23T00:00:00+00:00"
    },
    "search_query" : "*",
    "ssh" : {
      "effective_user" : "My_Username",
      "effective_user_password" : "My_Password"
    },
    "targeting_type" : "dynamic_query"
  }
}

Send a POST request with the created body to the /api/job_invocations endpoint of your orcharhino Server and see a formatted response. For example:

$ curl https://orcharhino.example.com/api/job_invocations \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-X POST \
-d @Path_To_My_API_Request_Body \
-u My_Username:My_Password \
| python3 -m json.tool