<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <p>Thomas,</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Thank you for bit of information. I just stood up a proxy server and registered about 2 dozen servers via the proxy. I routinely stop SW and clean out the jabberd database. Two reason why; </p> <p></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The SW server starts having problems after several days and cleaning out the database files clears up those problems.</span><br> </li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The database log files fills up /var. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br> </li></ol> <p></p> However, since I am already having osad issues, maybe this isn't such an issue. <div><br> </div> <div>Daryl<br> <br> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block; width:98%"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com> on behalf of Thomas <thomas@chaschperli.ch><br> <b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 13, 2016 12:17 PM<br> <b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates</font> <div> </div> </div> <div>Don't delete the database if you use spacewalk proxies connected to the spacewalk server or you'll run into osad problems with clients connected to the proxy. <br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">Am 13. Mai 2016 19:00:32 MESZ, schrieb Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1@gmail.com>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204); padding-left:1ex"> <pre class="k9mail">I have had success with a weekly cron job to clean out the jabber database<br><br>service jabberd stop<br>rm -Rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/*<br> service jabberd start<br>service osa-dispacher restart<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Matt Moldvan <matt@moldvan.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left:1px solid #729fcf; padding-left:1ex"> I'm with Maxime... I spent months trying to get OSAD to work properly, and<br> we recently had a major issue with some network equipment that lead to many<br> OSAD clients going offline. Personally I'm just about done with it and<br> ready to implement a cron job to do rhn_check every 5 minutes...<br><br> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:44 AM Maxime VEROONE <maxime.veroone@nordnet.fr><br> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style=""><br> We have personally chosen to restart both the whole jabberd/osa-dispatcher<br> stack and the osad clients every morning.<br> We banged our heads way too much trying to figure out why osad clients<br> randomly loose communications with the server without any log/alert/crash<br><br> Maxime VEROONE<br> Capensis SARL<br> Lille, France<br><br> De : spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com<br> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] De la part de Matthew Madey<br> Envoyé : vendredi 13 mai 2016 16:27<br> À : spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br> Objet : Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates<br><br> Are there any errors in /var/log/rhn/osa-dispatcher.log? Also try running<br> the below command on your clients<br> rm -f /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf; service osad restart<br> If you are running a host firewall or have firewalls in place on your<br> network, ensure port 5222 is open between clients and your Spacewalk server<br> On May 13, 2016 8:44 AM, "Daryl Rose" <darylrose@outlook.com> wrote:<br> OSAD is not picking up scheduled updates. To the best of my knowledge,<br> everything is running and I don't see any errors on the server or on the<br> clients. osad is running on the client, osa-dispatcher as well as the<br> jabberd processes are running on the server. The packages will be picked<br> up and applied by rhnsd, but I have to wait for it to check in. 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