<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes and no. Puppet (actually Salt) will be set up in the environment to handle things like provisioning software and configuring build environments. However, it’s not set up yet and I would like to try and avoid too many chains of tools relying on each other. In the perfect world, I would like to get the SW and Puppet/Salt client installations to happen automatically without using one or the other to help get them set up, that way the two can operate independently. If all else fails I’ll go that route but I want to avoid it for now. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas Foster<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 01, 2014 4:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Automatically Registering VM Clones as SPacewalk Clients<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are you using puppet?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL <<a href="mailto:jrglenni@ll.mit.edu" target="_blank">jrglenni@ll.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello All-<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>My apologies if this has been covered somewhere before, but I’m trying to determine the best method of automating spacewalk client registration in a virtual environment and surprisingly enough I haven’t found much. Right now, we are using VMware CentOS 6 templates as base images for client machines. We have a handful of scripts set up to automate other tasks such as hostname/IP changes, but I’m not sure the best way to handle spacewalk registration. Has anyone set this up before that may have some experiences to share? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I don’t think we want to go down the road of using kickstart as most of the configuration we need is already done on the template, unless there is a “light” way of using it to run simple post install scripts? And I’m pretty sure we can’t register the template to spacewalk otherwise we would have to deal with duplicate systems showing up in the inventory, or at least I think we would. I’m leaning towards using a template with the necessary packages installed but not registered to spacewalk, with a script in rc.local which will check to see if the machine is registered to spacewalk (not sure how yet) and then run the rhnreg command if not. Thoughts anyone?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-Jon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Spacewalk-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>