[Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to Update Hostname After System Registers to Spacewalk?

[Russ Lavoy]

How was this done?  I too am not able to use the PXE boot options to set the hostname in the kickstart process.

Can you enlighten me?

Thanks!

--- On Sat, 2/20/10, rob morrien <rmorrien at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> From: rob morrien <rmorrien at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to Update Hostname After System Registers to Spacewalk?
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 5:59 AM
> James,
> 
> we have written locally an appication which configured the
> host name
> and all the network interfaces in the machine.
> At the end during the kickstart the machine is registered
> into spacewalk
> or the sat server with the correct name.
> 
> we made this application because we are not allowed to use
> the pxe
> bootstrap function and we are not allowed to  to use
> the dhcp server
> function.
> 
> regards rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 19 February 2010 19:33, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 -
> MITLL
> > <jrglenni at ll.mit.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Hmm.. something else must be going wrong then.  I
> had thought that the
> >> rhn-profile-sync command might be what I was
> looking for but it didn't
> >> seem to do anything.  I'll have to poke around
> and see if I can figure
> >> out what's going wrong with that then.
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm missing something as I am new to the
> entire kickstart
> >> business, but the only way I know to do that is to
> create an individual
> >> kickstart file for each machine with the proper
> host name set.  Rather
> >> than do that that, I prefer using 1 kickstart
> profile and then running a
> >> script on first boot to finalize the machine.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of James Hogarth
> >> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:29 PM
> >> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to
> Update Hostname After
> >> System Registers to Spacewalk?
> >>
> >> On 19 February 2010 19:26, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 19 February 2010 19:23, James Hogarth
> <james.hogarth at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On 19 February 2010 18:14, Glennie,
> Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL
> >>>> <jrglenni at ll.mit.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Hello All-
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've been playing around with
> kickstarts in spacewalk 7 and have
> >>>>> gotten
> >>>>> things to the point where I can
> completely configure a base system to
> >>>>> my
> >>>>> requirements and boot that system into
> a graphical interface without
> >>>>> my
> >>>>> interaction.  The last thing I would
> like to do is change the system
> >>>>> name.
> >>>>> I can't seem to find any way to update
> a system's host name after it
> >>>>> has
> >>>>> registered to spacewalk, is there such
> an option?  Ideally I'd like
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> script this client side so I could
> execute a script on the machine
> >>>>> one last
> >>>>> time before it is good to go. 
>   Worst case scenario, would it be
> >>>>> possible
> >>>>> to unregister the client, change its
> hostname, then re-register it
> >>>>> with its
> >>>>> new hostname, all form the client
> side?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> For clarity - as it can get confusing -
> are you talking about the
> >>>> hostname or the displayed named in the
> system list?
> >>>>
> >>>> James
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> If you mean hostname registered in spacewalk
> then just change it on
> >>> the client and do a rhn-profile-sync ..
> >>>
> >>> If you mean the displayed name take a look at
> the XML-RPC API - there
> >>> are some great docs on it.
> >>>
> >>> Specifically you want:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/documentation/api/0.8/handlers/SystemHandler.html#setDetails
> >>>
> >>> That will let you set the displayed name in
> the systems list.
> >>>
> >>> James
> >>>
> >>
> >> Apologies for the reply to myself *again* but why
> change the name
> >> after the system has built? You could have it
> correct from the
> >> beginning during the kickstart and then not have
> to worry about it....
> >> Oh and if you change it sfter the system is built
> remember to amend
> >> /etc/hosts with the new name...
> >>
> >> James
> >>
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> > Busy at home now - will post on hwo I have it done at
> work on monday.
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