[Spacewalk-list] Redundant spacewalk servers

[Velayutham, Prakash]

On Jul 23, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

> Hello every one
> I am about to do some experiments with setting up redudndant spacewalk
> servers in a configuration similar to the one described here
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.4/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-Installation_Guide-Maintenance-Cloning_the_Satellite_with_Embedded_DB
> 
> The big difference is I'm going to do it with PostgreSQL 9.1 streaming
> replication, PGPool-II (PostgreSQL proxy with automatic failover and
> online recovery capability), and a couple of shared filesystems which
> could be NFS or a clustered filesystem
> unfortunately I will not be able to do hot standby query load
> balancing due to a limitation in the JDBC driver but it should allow
> users to load balance the the spacewalk servers in a live, live
> configuration via various methods.
> the primary driving interest is it seams as though satellite sync
> doesn't sync client info and this would.
> 
> 
> would any one be interested in a WIKI article describing how it works
> If so please let my know if there is enough interest I will document
> it as I go and add it to the user WIKI
> 
> 
> Thank You



Hi Paul,

Please do. It sounds interesting and I am sure I will get there sometime soon :)

Thanks,
Prakash