[Spacewalk-list] how to migrate channels?

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:12:29PM -0400, Zac Elston wrote:
> Zac Elston wrote:
>> Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> on 0.1 server:
>>> rhn-satellite-exporter -cyourchannel -d/var/tmp/somedir
>>> copy /var/tmp/somedir  to 0.5 server
>>> on 0.5 server:
>>> satellite-sync -cyourchannel -m/var/tmp/somedir
>> OH Sweeet!
> OH No!
>
> on my .5 server, when attempting to import my channels from .1 server to  
> .5 server I get
>
> /usr/bin/satellite-sync --list-channels -s myserverfqdn  
> --ca-cert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> 12:06:24 Red Hat Network Satellite - live synchronization
> 12:06:24    url: https://myserverfqdn
> 12:06:24    debug/output level: 1
> ERROR: there was a problem synchronizing the information.
>       Error message:
> Error Message:
>    Server "myserverfqdn " is not enabled for ISS.
> Error Class Code: 2004
> Error Class Info:
>     This satellite server is not allowed to use Inter Satellite Sync on  
> this satellite
> Explanation:
>     An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem
>     persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
>     If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
>     details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
>     details on how to reproduce this problem.
>
> same happens with .1 server trying to connect itself.  is there a switch  
> I'm missing?

You should run the satellite-sync with -m parameter pointing to a
directory to which you've exported the channels.

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Jan Pazdziora
Senior Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat