[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup questions

[Michael DeHaan]

> 3. Push any packages or config files to clients. I can schedule them 
> in Spacewalk, but they sit in a pending state until they fail. Remote 
> commands do the same.
> 4. “OSA Status” is showing offline on the system page in Spacewalk
> 5. Since I cannot use DHCP/PXE for this in my environment, I would 
> like to pass a hostname parameter to kickstart when booting from the 
> cobbler buildiso. Is that possible?

Hi Craig,

I'm just answering the Cobbler-specific question here, but, #5 == Yes. 
If you set "hostname" on the cobbler system object, this will be used in 
the default kickstart templates. I'm not sure Satellite allows for 
configuration of the parameter though (it should), but if not you can 
easily do:

cobbler system list
cobbler system edit --name=foo --hostname=xyz

You have to do this before the system is installed though, and then you 
use "cobbler buildiso" with the parameter to include each system name on 
the ISO.

(This will get a lot better as we bring back the Cobbler "live" CD 
(hopefully in the next major release) which acts as a full-on PXE 
simulator... so you don't have to reburn the CD when you add new 
systems, it can just look them up dynamically)

I'll let others field the other questions, but I hope that helps!

>
> Thank you in advance for any assistance. I’ll be happy to provide any 
> information you might need to help me, but I’m not sure where to start 
> looking at this point.
>
> Regards,
> Craig
>
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