[Spacewalk-list] And after install....

Pradeep Kilambi pkilambi at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 12:18:12 UTC 2008


Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com wrote:
> 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 
>   

It already can. If you have multiple channels in your content, you jus 
run it as

$ satellite-sync -c <channel-1> -c <channel-2> .. -c <channel-n> -m 
/my-channel

similarly for rhn-satellite-exporter while exporting.


~ Prad


>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>> [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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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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>>>
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