[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question

[Jeff Moody]

I would very much appreciate those scripts.

Thanks a bunch.

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Jeff Moody
Senior Systems Engineer

EVS Corporation
5050 Poplar Avenue ,Suite 1600
Memphis, Tennessee 38157
(901) 259-2387 - 24x7 Helpdesk

(901) 881-0919 - Office
(901) 497-1444 - Cell
jeff.moody at evscorporation.com

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Frey, Evan
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:18 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question


Ah, I misread your email. I thought you were trying to connect 1 client machine to multiple servers.

All that said I am currently doing exactly what you are describing. I have it in a two stage setup. I have a box for each architecture downloading all rpms in subscribed channels and dumping it to a central repo. An rhnpush script is kicked off that then iterates through the reop and pushes all the deltas to their corresponding channels. Future development will just pull down the src rpms and rebuild in each environment. If you want I can send you the scripts and directions for setup. I've been using it for months with no issues.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
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Sent: Mon Aug 17 16:52:43 2009
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question
The documentation I’ve seen are mailing list/web postings of people working on scripts to pull RHN packages to add to Spacewalk (rather than Satellite).

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Jeff Moody
Senior Systems Engineer

EVS Corporation
5050 Poplar Avenue ,Suite 1600
Memphis, Tennessee 38157
(901) 259-2387 - 24x7 Helpdesk

(901) 881-0919 - Office
(901) 497-1444 - Cell
jeff.moody at evscorporation.com

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Frey, Evan
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:51 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question


Configuration and management is done on clients that are registered with the spacewalk/satellite/rhn server. I don't believe that the client supports registering with multiple servers. I could be wrong but it seems like a potential package nightmare. If you have seen documentation outlining this, please post for I would be interested to read up.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
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Sent: Mon Aug 17 16:14:34 2009
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question
So, is it impossible to run a RHEL box that gets its updates from RHN but is configured and monitored by Spacewalk?
I have seen some different documentation on potential methods to sync the RHN packages to Spacewalk, but feel pretty confident that this is (1) in violation of the spirit of the Spacewalk project and (2) may invalidate the Red Hat Support agreements that my company already has in place.

More than anything, I have yet to find another product/project with some of the monitoring abilities of Spacewalk and would like that level of monitoring on our RHEL servers.

Thanks.

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Jeff Moody
Senior Systems Engineer

EVS Corporation
5050 Poplar Avenue ,Suite 1600
Memphis, Tennessee 38157
(901) 259-2387 - 24x7 Helpdesk

(901) 881-0919 - Office
(901) 497-1444 - Cell
jeff.moody at evscorporation.com

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Frey, Evan
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:46 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question

I think (and I may be wrong) that a client can only be registered to one spacewalk system.  When I have accidentally tried to register a system that was previously registered, an error pops up warning me to use the --force option to re-register.  The force option then unregisters my client from the original system and registers it to the forced system.  Not sure if it removes it on the spacewalk/satellite server or just from the client config.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Moody
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:17 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question
Are there any gotchas I should know about when registering a RHEL server with Spacewalk?
Is it possible to use Spacewalk for config management and monitoring and still pull updates from RHN?

I would assume that this shouldn’t be an issue if I don’t have a RHEL channel defined in Spacewalk and the updates should pull from RHN, but I didn’t know if there was an issue I may run into by having the box registered to both systems.

Thanks.


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Jeff Moody
Senior Systems Engineer

EVS Corporation
5050 Poplar Avenue ,Suite 1600
Memphis, Tennessee 38157
(901) 259-2387 - 24x7 Helpdesk

(901) 881-0919 - Office
(901) 497-1444 - Cell
jeff.moody at evscorporation.com

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