[Spacewalk-list] register systems

m.roth2006 at rcn.com m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Wed Feb 18 16:32:46 UTC 2009


Steve, 

   I do know that I finally got spacewalk up and running on CentOS 5.2, which is the equivalent of RHEL 5.2. As Miroslav said, and I found out myself, XMLRPC is an apache? tomcat5? handler - there is no such directory.

   I don't think I saw your reply - after you ran the registration from the client, did the system show up on the server, or not? When I did it, both rhnreg_ks and rhn_register (the latter interactive), I saw errors... but when I went to the browser interface on the server, I had two registrations of my test system.

   The only python dependency that I had to manually get was pyOpenSSL.

   Your error about "not found" *sounds* - and I'm not sure - as though there's a configuration file somewhere that needs editing, so that it points to your spacewalk server.

   Sorry if I can't be of more help.

      mark


---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:59:23 -0500
>From: Steve Vargo <stevevargo at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems  
>To: <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>
>   Well since no-one has any ideas I think I am going
>   to re-install and try RHEL 4.7 even though there are
>   supposedly people out there that can get systems
>   registered on RHEL 5.2. Wish me luck.......... 
>
>     ------------------------------------------------
>
>   From: stevevargo at hotmail.com
>   To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>   Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>   Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:23:50 -0500
>
>   This is the only thing that looks suspicious:
>
>   from /var/log/httpd/error_log on the spacewalk
>   server
>
>   [Tue Feb 17 13:11:20 2009] [error] [client
>   172.30.217.20] File does not exist:
>   /var/www/html/XMLRPC
>   [Tue Feb 17 13:11:20 2009] [error] [client
>   172.30.217.20] RHN::Exception: Tried to read 122
>   bytes from rpc request, but only could read 0\n 
>   PXT::Request
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/PXT/Request.pm 527
>   RHN::Exception::throw\n  PXT::Request
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/PXT/Request.pm 541
>   PXT::Request::xml_body\n  PXT::ApacheHandler
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/PXT/ApacheHandler.pm
>   396 PXT::Request::rpc_params\n  PXT::ApacheHandler
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/PXT/ApacheHandler.pm
>   67 PXT::ApacheHandler::initialize_pxt\n  main -e 0
>   PXT::ApacheHandler::handler\n  main -e 0 (eval)\n
>
>   I brought up this point on a post back on 2-5-09
>
>   find / -name XMLRPC
>   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XMLRPC
>   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Apache/XMLRPC
>   /usr/share/doc/perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08/examples/XMLRPC
>
>   I was told by Miroslav Suchy that
>
>   "It is apache handler defined in
>   /etc/rhn/satellite-httpd/conf/rhn/xmlrpc.conf. No
>   such file exist."
>
>   No other logs have any additional information on the
>   server.
>
>   **Note the above is when I run rhn_register.
>
>   When I run
>
>    rhnreg_ks
>   --serverUrl=https://spacewalk.company.com/XMLRPC
>   --activationkey=9b96b0f4a6a16ec24aeecb9ad191ed90
>
>   I get the following in /var/log/up2date on the
>   client and nothing on the server.
>
>   [Tue Feb 17 13:20:49 2009] up2date
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 267, in ?
>       cli.run()
>     File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py",
>   line 65, in run
>       sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
>     File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 88, in main
>       rhnreg.getCaps()
>     File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py",
>   line 324, in getCaps
>       s.capabilities.validate()
>     File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py",
>   line 154, in __get_capabilities
>       self.registration.welcome_message()
>     File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py",
>   line 50, in __call__
>       return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs)
>     File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py",
>   line 263, in doCall
>       raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(e.errmsg)
>   up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError:
>   Error communicating with server. The message was:
>   Not Found
>    
>   Thanks
>   Steve
>
>   > From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
>   > Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>   > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>   > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:14 -0500
>   >
>   > Steve,
>   >
>   > I assume you've looked:
>   > on the spacewalk server:
>   > /var/log/messages
>   > /var/log/httpd/error_log
>   > /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
>   > /var/log/rhn/*
>   > on the client:
>   > /var/log/messages
>   > /var/log/up2date
>   >
>   > and seen nothing useful?
>   >
>   > mark
>   >
>   >
>   > ---- Original message ----
>   > >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:56:07 -0500
>   > >From: Steve Vargo <stevevargo at hotmail.com>
>   > >Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>   > >To: <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>   > >
>   > > No firewall on either server and I can use lynx
>   to
>   > > connect tot he web gui
>   > >
>   > > -Steve
>   > >
>   > > > From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
>   > > > Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>   > > > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>   > > > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:37:02 -0500
>   > > >
>   > > > Steve,
>   > > >
>   > > > >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:33:10 -0500
>   > > > >From: Steve Vargo <stevevargo at hotmail.com>
>   > > > >
>   > > > > Yes I can ping it and I can get the the web
>   gui
>   > > via
>   > > > > a browser
>   > > >
>   > > > Mmm... not sure then. Wait - are you using a
>   > > browser on the client system? If not, you might
>   want
>   > > to check to see if port 443 is open on the
>   client.
>   > > >
>   > > > mark
>   > > >
>   > > > > > From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
>   > > > > > Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register
>   systems
>   > > > > > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>   > > > > > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:31:25 -0500
>   > > > > >
>   > > > > > Steve,
>   > > > > >
>   > > > > > >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:25:24 -0500
>   > > > > > >From: Steve Vargo
>   <stevevargo at hotmail.com>
>   > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > I am only using spacewalk.company.com in
>   > > this
>   > > > > post
>   > > > > > > because I am not permitted to give out
>   > > actual
>   > > > > > > hostname and domain. It is attempting to
>   > > connect
>   > > > > to
>   > > > > > > the correct server and host name I just
>   > > changed
>   > > > > them
>   > > > > > > in the email.
>   > > > > > >
>   > > > > > Oh, ok. Well, couple questions, then:
>   > > > > > 1) can you ping that server by name?
>   > > > > > 2) can you point your browser to the link
>   -
>   > > even
>   > > > > if you
>   > > > > > get a "not allowed", you'll know it's a
>   good
>   > > link.
>   > > > > >
>   > > > > > mark
>   > > > > > > Thanks
>   > > > > > > Steve
>   > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
>   > > > > > > > Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register
>   > > systems
>   > > > > > > > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>   > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:59:20 -0500
>   > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > Steve,
>   > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:44:33 -0500
>   > > > > > > > >From: Steve Vargo
>   > > <stevevargo at hotmail.com>
>   > > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > > When I attempt to use rhn_register
>   It
>   > > says:
>   > > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > > We are attempting to contact the Red
>   Hat
>   > > > > Network
>   > > > > > > > > server at
>   > > > > https://spacewalk.company.com/XMLRPC.
>   > > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > > Then says:
>   > > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > > We can't contact the Red Hat Network
>   > > Server.
>   > > > > > > Double
>   > > > > > > > > check the location provided - is
>   > > > > > > > <snip>
>   > > > > > > > Do you actually want to contact them?
>   > > Mmmm...
>   > > > > > > nslookup, use browser, sitename being
>   > > squatted
>   > > > > on,
>   > > > > > > it looks like. I think that you're meant
>   to
>   > > > > replace
>   > > > > > > spacewalk.company.com with your
>   company's
>   > > > > spacewalk
>   > > > > > > server URL.
>   > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > > mark
>   > > > > > > >
>   > > > > > > >
>   > > > >
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