[Spacewalk-list] Automatic hardware refresh in Spacewalk

[Thomas Ellis]

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Santi Saez wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to automatically commit hardware changes to Spacewalk?
> 
> For example, I have upgraded RAM into one client and until "Hardware
> Refresh" scheduled changes have not been reflected in WebUI.
> 
> We have already +200 clients in Spacewalk, and we make hardware changes
> with some frecuency; It would be nice to automatically commit those
> changes without scheduling hardware refresh manually..
> 
> If this task can't be done, is anyway to schedule jobs like "cron", for
> example make a hardware refresh each friday?

rhn-profile-sync in cron would do the job... you may want to randomise
the time each server does this though, since you won't want the whole of
your estate hitting the spacewalk server at the same time for obvious
reasons.

For frequency, it really depends on how much lag you want to have
between the hardware change and the profile update, running
rhn-profile-sync in cron.weekly/monthly should do the trick.

Regards,

Tom


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