[Spacewalk-list] can Spacewalk manage Oracle Enterprise Linux OS?

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Harvey,

Disclaimer: What I'm about to say could be completely wrong or I could just be making it up.

I am currently kickstarting and upgrading OEL out of Spacewalk. There are a couple issues that I have run into. 

1) the OEL up2date and the spacewalk packages seem to conflict. I uninstall the oracle ones before installing the spacewalk client tools. 

2)  At the last OEL version bump (from 5.4 to 5.5) things broke. Once the client was upgraded from 5.4 to 5.5 it no longer wanted to talk to spacewalk because it thought the version number was incorrect. There is a table in the database that stores the client version. For Redhat/Centos machines, it just stores 5, for at least some of Oracle machines I believe it actually stored 5.4, so I had to manually go in and change them to 5.5 once the system was upgraded. 

-Rob



----- "Harvey José Bendaña" <elnica6 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello-
> 
> I am a new (and happy) Admin/user of Spacewalk. Our Linux environment
> consists of mainly Redhat and CentOS servers and a handful of Oracle
> Enterprise Linux servers .
> 
> My question is, can spacewalk manage Oracle EL 5 servers? Is anyone
> doing this right now? Can anyone provide some assistance with setting
> up the ULN software channel in Spacewalk?
> 
> Spacewalk is an excellent product and has filled our Linux mgmt needs
> in a great way. I just started working here in Feb 2010 and before,
> all linux mgmt was done BY HAND (Ghasp, I know).
> 
> Since we use numerous flavors, Spacewalk made the most sense.
> 
> Thanks again for all your help Spacewalk community!
> Harvey Bendana
> Enterprise Systems Engineer
> 206-679-1816
> 
> 
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