[Spacewalk-list] And after install....
Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com
Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com
Mon Oct 6 08:42:00 UTC 2008
Hi
Thanks, it does makes sense. It would be nice if you could define a
custom script for each channel that gets called when doing a
satellite-sync. That way you could easily unify the updating of all
channels in one command.
Regards
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> Pradeep Kilambi
> Sent: 05 October 2008 19:07
> To: Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] And after install....
>
> Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
> > Just for my own confirmation, does that mean that the command
> > satellite-sync is for all intents and purposes useless in spacewalk?
> >
> > Regards
>
> For spacewalk, you should be able to satellite sync content
> from an exporter mount point. So say you have a channel
> created and push a bunch of content to it.Not instead of
> repeating the same steps on other servers, you could export
> the existing channel from the spacewalk server suing
> rhn-satellite-exporter,
>
> $ rhn-satellite-exporter --dir /my-channel -c test-channel
>
> and sync this back to another spacewalk server,
>
> $ satellite-sync -c test-channel -m /my-channel
>
> So the only difference is satellite sync is not talking
> directly to RHN, instead used locally.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Thanks,
> ~ Prad
>
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jonstanley at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Moises Rivera
> > <moises.rivera.plaza at gmail.com
> > <mailto:moises.rivera.plaza at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a customer that need the installation of the RHN
> > Satellite. I try
> > > with SpaceWalk, because, I dont have any experience with this
> > product.
> >
> > The installation procedures for RHN Satellite and
> Spacewalk are a
> > little bit different. In Satellite, you download the
> ISO (either with
> > the embedded database or external database), and there
> is an installer
> > script that takes care of everything for you, from
> installing the
> > packages, setting up the database, generating the CA, etc. The
> > installation of Spacewalk is significantly more manual
> (though still
> > very doable)
> >
> > > After a lot ot problems with the PGP keys, packages
> > installations and more,
> > > finally I installed spacewalk (yuju!!!!). But.... and now? :)
> > Today I can
> > > connect to the spacewalk - internal - web, but I dont know the
> > next steps in
> > > the configuration.
> >
> > Again, Spacewalk and Satellite differ significantly here. With
> > Spacewalk, you're fully responsible for creating all of
> your custom
> > content, pushing content into channels, etc. With
> Satellite, if you're
> > running a connected Satellite, you simply type 'satellite-sync
> > --list-channels' and it will connect to RHN and show
> you the channels
> > that you are entitled to. Then you type 'satellite-sync
> -c <channel
> > labels>' and it will start pulling down all of that
> content from RHN
> > hosted.
> >
> > > I dont know if I must create a Channel, if I nedd a
> certificate
> > - in the
> > > FAQ say that spacewalk use a certificate, but it say that
> > spacewalk not use
> > > it -.....
> >
> > Yes, in Spacewalk you need to create channels. In Satellite, the
> > channel creation of Red Hat channels will be taken care
> of by the
> > commands that I listed above, however, you will still
> need to create
> > whatever custom channels you require and push content
> to them using
> > rhnpush.
> >
> > As for the certificate, both use an entitlement certificate, the
> > difference is where you get it. For Satellite, you'll
> have to get one
> > from Red Hat customer service, it specifies what
> channel entitlements
> > you have and how many, as well as any add-on
> entitlements that you may
> > have purchased (provisioning, monitoring). A cert comes
> by default in
> > Spacewalk, containing 20,000 entitlements for everything (and
> > instructions on how to generate one for more if you need).
> >
> > I hope that helped.
> >
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