Thanks all. I think we will take the API route similar to what Josh suggested.<div> </div><div>Thanks,</div><div> </div><div>Wayman <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:37 AM, <<a href="mailto:Josh.Mullis@cox.com">Josh.Mullis@cox.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Here's a script I have that grabs the raw config file contents... (You may want to remove the "org" stuff if you only have 1 org) I also have that grabs the custom info for a given system. Let me know if you would like that one as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl use Frontier::Client; my $orgname = $ARGV[0]; if (!$orgname) { print "Command Syntax: <a href="http://spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl" target="_blank">spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl</a> <org_name> <config_chan> <file_path>\n"; exit; } my $cfgchan = $ARGV[1]; if (!$cfgchan) { print "Command Syntax: <a href="http://spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl" target="_blank">spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl</a> $orgname <config_chan> <file_path>\n"; exit; } my $file = $ARGV[2]; if (!$file) { print "Command Syntax: <a href="http://spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl" target="_blank">spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl</a> $orgname $cfgchan <file_path>\n"; exit; } my $HOST = 'localhost'; my $user = "$orgname-apiuser"; my $pass = 'YOUR_PASS'; my $client = new Frontier::Client(url => "http://$HOST/rpc/api"); my $session = $client->call('auth.login',$user, $pass); @files = ( "$file" ); my $filedetails = $client->call('configchannel.lookupFileInfo', $session, $cfgchan, \@files); foreach my $filedetail (@$filedetails) { print $filedetail->{'contents'}."\n"; } $client->call('auth.logout', $session); ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________ From: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Colin Coe [<a href="mailto:colin.coe@gmail.com">colin.coe@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:03 PM To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] exporting configuration channel data <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Jan Pazdziora <<a href="mailto:jpazdziora@redhat.com">jpazdziora@redhat.com</a>> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:59:43PM -0500, wayne smith wrote: >> Hello Spacewalk-list, >> >> I am a spacewalk user, and I would like to know if there is a way to export >> configuration channel data in the same manner software channel data is >> exported? > > No, exporter does not support that. > > You might want to check the APIs to see if any backup / restore > functionality can be built around it. > > -- > Jan Pazdziora > Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > My immediate though when I saw this post was how would (potential) macros in the config files be handled as these introduce 'uniqueness' in the files. Maybe a new API call in the configchannel namespace called 'getRawFile(String sessionKey, String chanLabel, String fileName)' returning a structure similar to 'server.config.lookupFileInfo' but the 'contents' would be raw? CC -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>