[Spacewalk-list] satellite-sync in Spacewalk?

[Jason Ganovsky]

Hi Pradeep,

That helps me understand the architecture, thank you.

So I *think* I successfully activated my Satellite correctly (although I might 
have steered wrong somwehere) but here it goes...

Basically, I used the template-eval.cert from the wiki, resigned it and 
activated my first spacewalk with it.  I then copied template-eval.cert 
to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-entitlement-cert.xml on the 2nd Spacewalk server.

Does all of that sound right?  Below is the error I'm seeing.

[root at spacewalk2 ~]# rhn-satellite-activate --no-ssl
NOTE: using backup cert as 
default: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-entitlement-cert.xml
RHN_PARENT: spacewalk.lnxservices.net
ERROR: unhandled XMLRPC fault upon remote deactivation (reraising): <Fault -1: 
'redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: Could not find method deactivateSatellite in 
class class com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.satellite.SatelliteHandler'>

ERROR: <Fault -1: 'redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: Could not find method 
deactivateSatellite in class class 
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.satellite.SatelliteHandler'>


On Tuesday 15 July 2008 4:59 pm, you wrote:
> Jason Ganovsky wrote:
> > But do I need a Satellite certificate, or just a RHEL subscription?  If I
> > need a Satellite subscription doesn't that defeat the purpose of setting
> > up and using Spacewalk?  Why wouldn't I just use Satellite?
>
> You would need both if you want to use RHN services. So satellite is an
> Enterprise product with support. Where as spacewalk is a community
> effort which is open source and free to use as you wish.  In order for
> you to populate content to your spacewalk server, syncing  from RHN is
> not the only option. You can create a custom channel on your spacewalk
> server and push content using rhnPush tool for an entire distro. So I
> recommend the following:
>
> * Activate your spacewalk server in disconnected  mode as mentioned earlier
>
> * create custom channels for whatever conettn you want.
>
> * push content to your custom channels(say for example fedora) using
> rhnPush. For help see the wiki docs. There is lot of examples on how to
> do that.
>
> see this: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent
>
> * then you should be able to register your fedora client and manage from
> your spacewalk server.
>
> see this: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
>
> This is jus an example. You can manage any of your clientss as long as
> you have the content uploaded to the spacewalk server.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> ~ Prad
>
> > On Tuesday 15 July 2008 4:38 pm, you wrote:
> >> If you want to use rhn.redhat.com services, then you need a certificate
> >> that can be validated against hosted. You will need to contact a red hat
> >> sales associate for that and essentially falls under the enterprise
> >> category where you have to pay for the entitlements. But if you wanna
> >> use your own, create your own cert(using
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/CertCreation ), you should make
> >> your satellite a disconnected one using this cert as follows.
> >>
> >> * rhn-satellite-activate --disconnected --rhn-cert=<your-custom-cert>
> >>
> >> and then use the content export tool or channel dumps to extract and
> >> sync back to your content to new spacewalk servers.
> >>
> >> ~ Prad
> >>
> >> Jason Ganovsky wrote:
> >>> What should I point to with --rhn-cert?  When I setup Spacewalk I
> >>> didn't create any special entitlement certificates, is that something I
> >>> need to do for this step?
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 4:06 pm, you wrote:
> >>>> Please follow this :
> >>>>
> >>>> * Register you server with RHN (in your case )
> >>>>
> >>>> * rhn-satellite-activate --rhn-cert=<your-cert>
> >>>>
> >>>> * then satellite-sync -l
> >>>>
> >>>> Lemme know if this helps,
> >>>>
> >>>> ~ Prad
> >>>>
> >>>> Jason Ganovsky wrote:
> >>>>> Ok, so far no go.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The machine where spacewalk is running is registered with RHN.  When
> >>>>> I try and run satellite-sync I get the following
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [root at spacewalk ~]# satellite-sync -s http://rhn.redhat.com
> >>>>> --list-channels --debug-level=6
> >>>>> 15:43:04 Red Hat Network Satellite - live synchronization
> >>>>> 15:43:04    url: https://rhn.redhat.com
> >>>>> 15:43:04    debug/output level: 6
> >>>>> 15:43:04    +++ Satellite synchronization tool checking in.
> >>>>> 15:43:04
> >>>>> 15:43:04
> >>>>> ERROR: there was a problem synchronizing the information.
> >>>>>        Error message: [('SSL routines',
> >>>>> 'SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE', 'certificate verify failed')]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If I then run
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [root at spacewalk ~]# satellite-sync -s http://rhn.redhat.com
> >>>>> --list-channels --no-ssl --debug-level=6
> >>>>> 15:57:04 Red Hat Network Satellite - live synchronization
> >>>>> 15:57:04    url: http://rhn.redhat.com
> >>>>> 15:57:04    debug/output level: 6
> >>>>> 15:57:04    +++ Satellite synchronization tool checking in.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It sits there forever.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 11:50 am, you wrote:
> >>>>>> Ah ok :) .. lemme know if you hit any issues. I'll be happy to give
> >>>>>> any input.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ~ Prad
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Jason Ganovsky wrote:
> >>>>>>> None, I haven't attempted to set it up yet.  I've never used it
> >>>>>>> before (Satellite, Spacewalk or otherwise) so I wanted to make sure
> >>>>>>> everything was in working order before I started frustrating myself
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> :)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 11:19 am, you wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Should be fully functional. What's the specific issue you're
> >>>>>>>> facing?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> ~ Prad
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Jason Ganovsky wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Has anyone successfully used satellite-sync in Spacewalk?  I'd
> >>>>>>>>> like to verify that it in fact fully works.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thanks for any information!
> >>>>>>>>>
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