[rhn-users] Frequent checks for updated packages via RHN

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:13, Clifford Perry wrote:
> I would suggest to look at using the API to do the same task. API uses
> the username/password to login and allow you to query Errata and
> packages associated with channels. Currently any time up2date runs and
> performs any type of action against RHN, it has to check-in. Since there
> are counters that monitor the rate of check-in for each system, (as you
> found out) frequent check-ins for a system cause it to be flagged as an
> abuse of service. You can avoid this by using the API for
> username/password login and queries.
>
> https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/api/   shows the current API's available.
> There is documentation and example script usage within the RHN Reference
> Guide as well.

I finally managed to find time to look at this, but the example at 
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn405/en/s1-rhn-api-script.jsp 
uses generic hostnames. Can someone confirm the URL that should be used for 
using the API in the case of no Satellite server? Using: 


my $XMLRPC = 'https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/';
print "Creating XML-RPC connection:\n";
my $client = new Frontier::Client(url => $XMLRPC );
print "Logging in:\n";
my $session = $client->call('auth.login', $username, $password);

results in:
Creating XML-RPC connection:
Logging in:
500 SSL read timeout:

However I can connect to RHN with lynx from this host (ie 'lynx 
https://rhn.redhat.com'). I have also tried with:

my $XMLRPC = 'https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC';

which results in:

Creating XML-RPC connection:
Logging in:
Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault code -1: While running 'auth.login': 
caught
server.apacheRequest.UnknownXML : Invalid request received (class xmlrpc.auth 
is not defined (function = login)).



and with:
my $XMLRPC = 'https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/';

which results in:

Creating XML-RPC connection:
Logging in:
405 Method Not Allowed


Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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