[Spacewalk-list] The "official" RHN vs local spacewalk server

Brian Collins brianc at sedata.com
Tue Sep 6 14:58:52 UTC 2011


> I just discovered the wonderful world of spacewalk XML/RPC API. In my
> company currently we do not have a satellite/spacewalk local server,
we are
> using directly RHN to manage our subscription. So I tried to use the
example
> script to connect to https://rhn.
> redhat.com/rpc/api.
> I discovered that many (probably most) of methods do not work, while
the
> example based on listUserSystems works perfectly. Is it normal that
these
> functionalities are not available at RHN or is it more likely a bug in
my code?
> For example I simply tried system.listVirtualHosts without success :-(
> 

It's been my experience that several of the API commands are not
available inside RHN and only work within a Satellite/Spacewalk
environment.  I think the limited set of commands is probably this
(you'll need your RHN login to view this):
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Network/API_Documentati
on/





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