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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hi Phil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for your reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">It looks like it was a rookie mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">I am new at Spacewalk and I followed the instructions here to register a client.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="tlid-translation"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients">https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="tlid-translation"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Unfortunately there was no hint that you have to start the rhnsd service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">So I have started the service now and configured it to start automatically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">And I need no osad at the moment. Every 4 hours check in is fine for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Harald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>P.Cookson@bham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2019 10:01<br>
<b>An:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 | Offline Clients<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hi Harald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Were they ok originally, and stopped working properly, or are you just trying to setup OSAD for the first time? Either way if you work through my personal notes (for OSAD), below, it may help to
identify your problem. If everything has been done correctly it may be an infrastructure problem though ie un-reliable network connection or NTP?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">By default, the rhnsd daemon on a client system connects to the Spacewalk server every
<b>four hours</b> (see <b>/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd</b>) and performs any updates or actions that have been scheduled. If you install the OSA daemon, you can apply updates and actions to client systems immediately from the Spacewalk server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">osa-dispatcher<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Server-side service that determines when an osad client instance needs to be pinged or run rhn_check and sends a message telling them to do so. This is installed when Spacewalk is installed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Open Source Architecture Daemon (OSAD)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Client-side service that responds to pings and runs rhn_check when told to by osa-dispatcher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">See official documentation, at the following link, for more details:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/OSADSetup">https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/OSADSetup</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Install OSAD and related RHN/Spacewalk packages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"># yum -y install osad rhncfg rhncfg-actions rhncfg-client<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Spacewalk Actions Control - Enable Scheduled Actions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"># rhn-actions-control --enable-all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Spacewalk Actions Control - Show Status<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"># rhn-actions-control --report<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Start OSAD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"># systemctl start osad.service OR service osad start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Enable OSAD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"># systemctl enable osad.service OR chkconfig osad on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">OSAD Log File<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">/var/log/osad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hope this is of help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
<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>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:Harald.Wachauer@akm.at">Harald.Wachauer@akm.at</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 February 2019 08:22<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 | Offline Clients<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hi, Jonathan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Looks good:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">[root@vie-srv-log02 ~]# netstat -tn|grep 5222<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">tcp 0 0 172.21.0.181:46018 172.21.0.166:5222 ESTABLISHED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Nerveless the client is offline in spacewalk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Harald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">
<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>>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Jonathan Horne<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2019 21:48<br>
<b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 | Offline Clients<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">all your clients should have established traffic to the spacewalk server on port 5222. it should stay in an established state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">[jhorne@dlp-log01 ~]$ netstat -tn|grep 5222<br>
tcp 0 0 10.12.59.52:38718 10.12.59.64:5222 ESTABLISHED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">From:</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">
<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 Wachauer Harald <<a href="mailto:Harald.Wachauer@akm.at">Harald.Wachauer@akm.at</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:17:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 | Offline Clients</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have the problem that most of my systems (CentOS 6 & 7) are going offline after approximately one day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Only if I run rhn_check the systems come online again, but only for short time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have tried to install osad service, the service is running but nerveless the client is going offline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any help would be very appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Harald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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