[Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

Wed Sep 22 01:33:02 UTC 2010

thanks, ill givem a shot.

Jason

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:28:19AM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
> OK
> 
> make_sat_client: does the magic and makes a node a Satellite/Spacewalk client
> init_sat_client: (optional) does additional configuration like
> removing duplicate profiles, joining config channels, uploading local
> files to config channels
> 
> Make_sat_client requires kickstart profiles matching the clients type
> (i.e. RHEL5 Server).  For example 'mksatclient5s-x86_64' for 64 bit
> RHEL 5 server.
> 
> The kickstart profile needs an activation key to subscribe the
> appropriate child channels (like RHN Tools).  I generally name the
> activation key to be the same as the kickstart profile.
> 
> I've attached a sample kickstart profile but I've removed identifying
> strings and the SSL and GPG keys.  You'll need to put this in.
> 
> Remember that kickstart profiles and activations are bound to an
> organisation so if you are multi-org, you'll need to clone these
> between orgs.  The script 'clone_ak_and_kp_between_orgs.pl' should be
> a good starting point for you.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions on the above.
> 
> Hope the helps.
> 
> CC
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Jason Welsh <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> > ?that would be MOST appreciated.. ;)
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> > On 09/17/10 16:46, Colin Coe wrote:
> >>
> >> Those .rpm files that aren't RPM files contain the following
> >> ----
> >> <p>The file you requested could not be downloaded, likely due to one
> >> of the foll ? ? ? ? ?owing reasons:</p>
> >> ? ?<ol>
> >> ? ? ?<li>The url has expired.</li>
> >> ? ? ?<li>The url has been modified.</li>
> >> ? ? ?<li>The Spacewalk server does not have read permissions on the
> >> specified f ? ? ? ? ?ile.</li>
> >> ? ?</ol>
> >> <p>Please revisit the page you recieved this url from to recieve a new
> >> one.</p>
> >> ----
> >>
> >> The way I handle this is to have a kickstart profile and activation
> >> key called make_sat_client_el5s for example where el5s is RHEL5
> >> Server. ?I then have a script stored centrally that all nodes can see
> >> called 'make_sat_client' which determines which kickstart profile to
> >> use, downloads said kickstart file, hacks out the 'interesting bits'
> >> of the kickstart and the runs the result.
> >>
> >> You could do something similar.
> >>
> >> If you want I can post these to the list on Monday.
> >>
> >> CC
> >>
> >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:09 AM,<jason at monsterjam.org> ?wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Mike
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, clients can access RPMs before activation/registration but not
> >>>> trivially. ?Here's a snippet from the post script from a kickstart:
> >>>> ---
> >>>> mkdir -p /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional
> >>>> cd /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional
> >>>> wget -P /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional
> >>>>
> >>>> http://127.0.0.1/download/package/914a8ce4e6f7676172d0a4a7f676c27ec9a2a671/0/1/574/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>
> >>>> http://127.0.0.1/download/package/820777256524475e88b262c612dbac16af14ccc4/0/1/9831/rhnlib-2.5.26-1.el5.noarch.rpm
> >>>>
> >>>> http://127.0.0.1/download/package/3fd11ca62e5c2445fb825be90c6d180b6ff7a258/0/1/1433/pyOpenSSL-0.6-1.p24.7.2.2.x86_64.rpm
> >>>> rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles
> >>>> /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/pyOpenSSL* /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/rhnlib*
> >>>> /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/libxml2-python*
> >>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> Notice the 'wget' followed by the 'rpm'.
> >>>
> >>> I assume that instead of 127.0.0.1, you mean the ip address of the
> >>> spacewalk server, right?
> >>>
> >>> like I stated before, I couldnt get wget to work with https, we we
> >>> decided to do the following instead..
> >>>
> >>> curl -O -k
> >>>
> >>> https://redhouse/download/package/8abd60ca2d6cc6a4e8/1284630970455/1/6660/spacewalk-koan-0.2.5-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
> >>>
> >>> for the 4 packages in question, BUT, when they get downloaded, they arent
> >>> the real packages, they are umm..
> >>> well, im not sure what they are..
> >>>
> >>> jason at zim /tmp $ cat spacewalk-koan-0.2.5-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> >>> "http://www.w3.or
> >>> g/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
> >>> ?<head>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <!-- enclosing head tags in layout_c.jsp -->
> >>>
> >>> ? ?<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
> >>> ? ?<title>
> >>> ? ? ?Spacewalk
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ? ? ? ? - Sign In
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ? ?</title>
> >>> ? ?<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/img/favicon.ico" />
> >>> ? ?<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/rhn-base.css" type="text/css" />
> >>> ? ?<script src="/javascript/prototype-1.6.0.js" type="text/javascript">
> >>> ?</scrip ? ? ? ? ?t>
> >>> ? ?<script src="/javascript/check_all.js" type="text/javascript">
> >>> ?</script>
> >>> ? ?<!--[if IE]>
> >>> ? ? ? ?<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
> >>> href="/css/rhn-iecompat.css" />
> >>> ? ?<![endif]-->
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ?</head>
> >>> ?<body onload="">
> >>> ? <div id="wrap">
> >>> ? ?<div class="wrap" id="top-wrap">
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <!-- header.jsp -->
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <div id="header">
> >>> ? ? ?<a href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/" title="Visit
> >>> http://spacewalk.redha ? ? ? ? ?t.com/ for more
> >>> information"><img src="/img/logo_vendor.png" alt="Spacewalk proj
> >>> ?ect" id="rhLogo" /></a>
> >>> ? ? ? ?<a href="/" title="Spacewalk homepage">
> >>> ? ? ? ? ?<img src="/img/logo_product.png" alt="Spacewalk" id="rhnLogo" />
> >>> ? ? ? ?</a>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> </div>
> >>>
> >>> <div id="navWrap">
> >>> <div id="mainNavWrap">
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ? ? ?<ul id="mainNav"><li id="mainFirst-active"><a href="/"
> >>> class="mainFirstLin ? ? ? ? ?k">Sign In</a></li>
> >>> <li id="mainLast"><a href="/help/about.pxt"
> >>> class="mainLastLink">About</a></li>
> >>> </ul>
> >>>
> >>> </div> ?<!-- close div mainNavWrap -->
> >>>
> >>> </div> ?<!-- close div navWrap -->
> >>>
> >>> <div id="bar">
> >>> ?<div id="systembar">
> >>> ? ?<div id="systembarinner">
> >>> ? ? ?<div>
> >>>
> >>> ? ? ?</div>
> >>> ? ?</div>
> >>> ?</div>
> >>> </div> ?<!-- end div bar -->
> >>> <!-- end header.jsp -->
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ? ?</div>
> >>> ? ?<div class="wrap" id="bottom-wrap">
> >>> ? ? ?<div id="content">
> >>> ? ? ? ?<!-- MAIN table -->
> >>> ? ? ? ?<table width="100%" cellspacing="0">
> >>> ? ? ? ? ?<tr>
> >>> ? ? ? ? ? ?<td class="sidebar">
> >>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?<!-- left nav -->
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <div id="sidenav">
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> </div>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <!-- TODO make this more generic -->
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ? ? ? ? ? ?</td>
> >>> ? ? ? ? ? ?<td class="page-content">
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?<html:xhtml/>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <h1><img src="/img/rhn-icon-warning.gif"/>File Download Failed</h1>
> >>>
> >>> <p>The file you requested could not be downloaded, likely due to one of
> >>> the foll ? ? ? ? ?owing reasons:</p>
> >>> ? ?<ol>
> >>> ? ? ?<li>The url has expired.</li>
> >>> ? ? ?<li>The url has been modified.</li>
> >>> ? ? ?<li>The Spacewalk server does not have read permissions on the
> >>> specified f ? ? ? ? ?ile.</li>
> >>> ? ?</ol>
> >>> <p>Please revisit the page you recieved this url from to recieve a new
> >>> one.</p>
> >>> ? ? ? ? ? ?</td>
> >>> ? ? ? ? ?</tr>
> >>> ? ? ? ?</table>
> >>> ? ? ? ?<!-- END MAIN table -->
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ?<div id="footer">
> >>> ? ?Copyright ? 2002-10 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
> >>> ? ?<a href="https://www.redhat.com/legal/privacy_statement.html">Privacy
> >>> statem ? ? ? ? ?ent</a>
> >>> ? ?:<a href="http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html">Legal
> >>> statement</a>
> >>> ? ?:<a href="http://www.redhat.com/">redhat.com</a>
> >>> ? ? ?<div style="color: black">Spacewalk release<a
> >>> href="/rhn/help/release-not
> >>> es/satellite/index.jsp">1.0</a></div>
> >>> ? ?<p>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> </p>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ?</div>
> >>>
> >>> <!-- Javascript -->
> >>> <script src="/javascript/check_all.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
> >>>
> >>> ? ? ?</div><!-- end content -->
> >>> ? ?</div><!-- end bottom-wrap -->
> >>> ? </div><!-- end wrap -->
> >>> ?</body>
> >>> </html>
> >>> jason at zim /tmp $
> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>> Jason
> >>>
> >>>
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