[Spacewalk-list] Activation key and "Spacewalk Default"

[Paul Robert Marino]

Thanks for the feed back
I wrote the script to handle more than just RHEL so it varies from
distro to distro

Arch is fairly consistent
32 bit is almost always = i386
64 bit is almost always  = x86_64
there are other Archs like ppc (Power PC Mac) and s390 (IBM Mainframe)
but i386 or x86_64 are the ones most people use.

OS changes by distro
RedHat = redhat-release-server
Sientific Linux = sl-release

Release changes by distro and version

RHEL 6.x = 6Server
RHEL 5.x = 5Server
Scientific Linux 6.2 = 6.2

Im honestly not sure what the settings for RHEL 4 should be since i
don't ahve any RHEL 4 boxes running in production any more but two
have 2 options to figure it out
option 1
if you have a box currently registered to redhat network you can get
it from the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid file
here is an example from RHEL 6
"
<member>
<name>description</name>
<value><string>Initial Registration Parameters:
OS: redhat-release-server
Release: 6Server
CPU Arch: x86_64</string></value>
</member>
"

The second option is you can get it from the spacewalk error logs
the error message should appear in /var/log/rhn/rhn_web_api.log and
tell you what it tried to register as



On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusayev at webmd.net> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Would you  please make an example of  proper values for --os --release and --arch..
>
> Reason I'm asking, I checked how the release and architecture is displayed under a sinlge system and it seems I could have multiple option.
>
> As of now I have following, which one is correct? What would be a proper entry for RHAS 4 64 and 32 bit and RHEL server 5 32 bit?
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |         Channel Label        |    Operating System    | Release |  Arch  |
> |------------------------------|------------------------|---------|--------|
> |          rhel-x86_64-server-5|             rhel-server|        5|  x86_64|
> |------------------------------|------------------------|---------|--------|
> |          rhel-x86_64-server-5|                    rhel|        5|  x86_64|
> |------------------------------|------------------------|---------|--------|
> |          rhel-x86_64-server-5|          redhat-release|        5|  x86_64|
> |------------------------------|------------------------|---------|--------|
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It would help if you can show your --list to see how mapping is done or have another operation that can list what --arch --release and others can be set to.
>
> Thanks
> ilya
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:08 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Activation key and "Spacewalk Default"
>
> Its because the channels are not in the default dist map here is my tool for setting channels in the default dist map https://github.com/prmarino1/Extravehicular-Activity-Admin/blob/master/channel-managment/eva-dist-channel-map.pl
>
> Note even though this script uses the published XML RPC APIs for spacewalk to do it this is not considered a supported operation at this time.
> but its worked well for me and i hope it works for you.
> by the way it has an embedded man file that can be extracted using the pod2text or pod2man tools.
> let me know if it helps you
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusayev at webmd.net> wrote:
>> I created several activation keys with "spacewalk default" as an
>> option for a channel. The "Tip" that is allows for systems to register
>> with default Redhat provided channel that corresponds to their installed version.
>>
>>
>>
>> My channels are named identically to what rhn has - i.e.
>> rhel-x86_64-server-5. Why would the system that is being registered
>> does not pick up the channel? I only have 1 base channel that matches this system.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm using rhel5.7 64 client and spacewalk 1.7
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ilya
>>
>>
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