[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Monitoring Scout

[Brandon Perkins]

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Benedetto Vassallo wrote:
> Def. Quota Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>:
> 
>> On 05/06/2010 08:14 PM, Cory mckee wrote:
>>> Is there a way to remove a Spacewalk monitoring scout. When I did the
>>> upgrade the second one appeared
>>
>> Yes and no.
>>
>> Not easy and using normal tools.
>>
>> Yes. Using sqlplus and direct access to DB.
>>
>> But first of all... There should not appear second scout after
>> upgrade. Can we spent some time investigating why it happened? Did you
>> made something unusual during upgrade? Or you have two scouts even
>> before upgrade? Or something else?
>>
>> -- 
> 
> Excuse me.
> Is there a way to have more than one scout?
> If yes, how can I create new scouts?
> Thanks
> 

The only way to add additional scouts is by installing Spacewalk
Proxies.  It is actually quite common to move all the active probes to
Proxies running the scouts, instead of overloading the Spacewalk server
that is busy enough with packages, errata, updates, etc. going on.

Thanks,
Brandon
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