[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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>>> --
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>>>
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