[Spacewalk-list] Newbie, question about channels

[Jason M. Nielsen]

I am not aware of a way to "sync configuration files" but if you push 
all the configs you want to maintain into a channel(s) you can simply 
then deploy all files from those configuration channels to all hosts and 
be confident they will all be the same. Keep in mind though there are 
some configuration file issues such as rollbacks do strange things (ie: 
rollbacks in general will redeploy all configuration files). The only 
way I have seen around this is to lock the system, rollback, unschedule 
the bits of the rollback you do not want, unlock the system.

The sync'ing of package profiles (whether saved or to an existing 
system) work very nicely. I have used it many times here. I have even 
used it in a "rollback" process to pull a machine back to an old 
configuration state known to be "ok" that only existed on a different 
but currently operational server.

On 12/11/2011 09:29 PM, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:59 AM, David Greco
> <David_Greco at harte-hanks.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I have 5 RH 5 servers at the moment that need to be configured similiarly. I have setup one of these exactly the way I like, and would like the 4 others to be setup similiarly. Same packages installed, same configuration, etc. Is this something satellite is good for? I browsed the documentation but so no mention of how to take an existing system, all its configs and packages, and create a channel that other systems can update from.
>
> Regarding the packages, you could do it with a channel or a package
> profile.  I'd recommend the latter.  Once the first system that you
> want done is built (which you say you've completed), ensure that it's
> registered to Spacewalk.  Then you can build the other 4 systems, and
> have them sync package profiles to that of the first system.  It's one
> of the advanced options in Kickstart.  I'd tell you exactly where, but
> my Spacewalk server is currently down in anticipation of the CentOS
> 6.1 upgrade that I'll be doing tonight. ;)
>
>    -I
>
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