[Spacewalk-list] Some questions about SpaceWalk

[Jan Hutař]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:58:37 +0000 Brian Luckau <bluckau at sgi.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can SpaceWalk be used to manage a chroot filesystem

Hello.

No.

> or an LXC
> (Linux Container,)

I do not know what is this => can not say.

> or any other method of using an image that
> will later be applied to one or more host(s)?

You can manage virtual guests, but the tooling around to
distribute images would be your responsibility.

There might be support for SuSE Studio in 1.8, but Miroslav can
speak about that more.

> Also, what kind of API is there for gathering information, and

Either XMLAPI:
  http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/api/1.7/

or spacewalk-reports:
  https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/ScriptBasedReporting
  (there are some addition in the tool which are not on that wiki)

> what kind of API is there for controlling SpaceWalk?

XMLRPC menioned above.

> Thanks,
> Brian E Luckau

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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