[Spacewalk-list] Duplicates and Reactivation
Tom Brown
tom at ng23.net
Mon May 10 13:46:24 UTC 2010
>
> I want to reduce the manual work to do when reinstalling a system and
> therefore avoid duplicates in my spacewalk installation.
>
> The only way to do that is to generate a reactivation key for each
> system. As far as I found out this can only be done by using the web
> interface manually.
>
> Is there an (undocumented) way to generate such keys automatically for
> example within a script either on the spacewalk server or a client?
>
> An imaginable workaround would be to delete the duplicates
> automatically. A proposal for identifying such systems can be found in
> the spacewalk wiki
> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/DuplicateProfiles). Were some
> of these features integrated or can a list of existing hosts (with
> system-id) be exported and via a script-able interface deleted?
>
> My last and most universal question: how do you handle duplicates in
> your installations?
>
>
this is exactly the thing i am currently looking at - how can a box be
rebuilt without having to go into the gui and remove it first, otherwise
you end up with a dupe. We rebuild without the use of the gui so this
behavior just makes this harder to manage.
if i find anything i'll let you know
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