[Spacewalk-list] new script for deleting inactive systems is available

[Miroslav Suchý]

Hi,
I add to spacewalk-utils new script delete-old-systems-interactive. This 
script delete inactive systems. This script will be in 
spacewalk-utils-0.9.6-1, which will be in Spacewalk 0.9 release or in 
nightly builds.

Thanks to Jan Pazdziora, who wrote most of the code.

 From man page:

SYNOPSIS
        delete-old-systems-interactive [OPTIONS] --idle time_delta

DESCRIPTION
        delete-old-systems-interactive - will use Spacewalk API to determine
        when each registred system checked in last time and optionaly will
        delete systems which have been inactive for time_delta.

        This script will list all registred systems and their last check in.
        And will if none system is idle more then time_delta, it will write
        summary:

         Total systems [127], none idle

        If some systems are idle more then time_delta, you will get summary
        like:

         Total systems [127], would delete [51]

        None system is deleted by default, unless you specify --force 
option.

OPTIONS
        --idle time_delta
                Search for system, which are inactive for more then 
time_delta.
                If only number is specified, it is interpreted as days. 
You can
        use suffixes m (for minutes),
                h (hours), d (days) and w (weeks). E.g. "--idle 10" and 
"--idle
        10d" is the same and means
                ten days, "--idle 2w" means two weeks.

        --host host
                Hostname of you Spacewalk server. If not set, localhost 
is used
        by default.

        --username login
                Your username. By default "admin".

        --password pass
                Your password. If not specified on command line, then it is
        read from /etc/rhn/$username-password

        --force
                If specified, then idle systems are deleted.

EXAMPLES
          delete-old-systems-interactive --server=spacewalk.com --idle 30d

AUTHOR
        Miroslav Suchy <msuchy at redhat.com>, Jan Pazdziora
        <jpazdziora at redhat.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
        Copyright (c) 2009 Red Hat, Inc.  Released under GNU General Public
        License, version 2 (GPLv2).


-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering