[Spacewalk-list] [rhn-satellite-users] Client Configuration Guide: 2.2.4. Implementing Server Failover

[Aaron Prayther]

The below 2 attempts to connect to a secondary satellite server (and appears to me that the secondary is never attempted) shows the first attempt when the primary satellite server (that has rhn-satellite stop: not running) and the secondary hostname1 that is up and running and works if set as primary.

The second, 2 attempt is renaming the primary (and still disabled satellite server) wronghostname so that it won't resolve.

Both fail never attempting to connect to secondary/failover satellite hostname1.

serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
serverURL=https://hostname/XMLRPC;https://hostname1/XMLRPC;

proxyPassword[comment]=The password to use for an authenticated proxy
proxyPassword=

proxyUser[comment]=The username for an authenticated proxy
proxyUser=

disallowConfChanges[comment]=Config options that can not be overwritten by a config update action
disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerURL;serverURL;disallowConfChanges;

sslCACert[comment]=The CA cert used to verify the ssl server
sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

[root at host ~]# yum --nogpg update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN channel support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Connection refused
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

[root at host ~]# vim /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
serverURL=https://wronghostname/XMLRPC;https://hostname1/XMLRPC;

proxyPassword[comment]=The password to use for an authenticated proxy
proxyPassword=

proxyUser[comment]=The username for an authenticated proxy
proxyUser=

disallowConfChanges[comment]=Config options that can not be overwritten by a config update action
disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerURL;serverURL;disallowConfChanges;

sslCACert[comment]=The CA cert used to verify the ssl server
sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

[root at host ~]# yum --nogpg update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN channel support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Name or service not known
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root at nces-util-01 ~]#

Aaron Prayther

Aaron Prayther

-----Original Message-----
From: Miroslav Suchý [mailto:msuchy at redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:36 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Cc: Aaron Prayther; rhn-satellite-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [rhn-satellite-users] Client Configuration Guide: 2.2.4. Implementing Server Failover

On 01/18/2011 01:32 PM, Aaron Prayther wrote:
> I'm dual posting spacewalk/satellite.
> 
> It's a satellite issue but a relatively new feature (I think, have not
> tried using it till now).  Having come up empty handed on google, other
> than references back to the documentation...
> 
> It never seems to connect (or even try) to the second configured
> satellite server.  I have messed with registering one or the other and
> changing from https to http.  No matter what I do it never appears to
> attempt to connect to the secondary server.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers on this?

You may be right.
Can you elaborate on which command does not use that failover? We have
dozen client commands and I want to be sure we speak about the same one.


-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering