[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.7 provisioning centos 6.3
Velayutham, Prakash
Prakash.Velayutham at cchmc.org
Mon Sep 24 13:56:03 UTC 2012
Provisioning CentOS 6.3 systems works for me as well. I am running Spacewalk 1.6 on CentOS 6.2.
Prakash
On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote:
> I've kickstarted several Cent 6.3 servers from my spacewalk install, so I can at the very least let you know it does work. Where are you seeing it rely on up2date?
>
> Greg Wojtak
> Sr. Unix Systems Engineer
> Office: (313) 373-4306
> Cell: (734) 718-8472
>
>
> From: Lint Thomas <Thomas.Lint at external.t-systems.at<mailto:Thomas.Lint at external.t-systems.at>>
> Reply-To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
> Date: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:08 AM
> To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.7 provisioning centos 6.3
>
> Hello,
>
> while configuring spacewalk 1.7 on centos 6.3 a problem occurred at centos 6.3 provisioning. I guess it is caused by the generated kickstart config and the ongoing installation procedure that relies on up2date which is not shipped with centos 6.3 anymore.
>
> Setup:
> Spacewalk Server
> Centos 6.3 x64 minimal
> Spacewalk 1.7 postgreSQL
>
> We Configured Spacewalk 1.7 and created a Software Channel, added a Repo and created a kickstart profile which is published via http.
> Our client machine initiates the installation over PXE-boot and retrieves the Centos6.3 base install image from cobbler. The automatic generated kickstart file does not work with centos 6.3 even though we selected the correct distribution.
>
> Are there know issues/incompatibilities with centos 6.3? does anyone know when 6.3 will be fully supported or how to fix the described issue?
>
> There the paste of the automatic generated spacewalk kickstart config:
>
> # Kickstart config file generated by Spacewalk Config Management
> # Profile Label : Centos6_x64-test
> # Date Created : Thu Sep 20 17:21:13 CEST 2012
>
> install
> text
> network --bootproto dhcp
> url --url http://spacewalk1.sec/ks/dist/centos6-x64
> lang en_US
> keyboard us
> zerombr
> clearpart --all
> bootloader --location mbr
> timezone America/New_York
> auth --enablemd5 --enableshadow
> rootpw --iscrypted $1$vtNOYEQs$2T/hfAVCjWc.BlBtroMlQ/
> selinux --permissive
> reboot
> firewall --disabled
> skipx
> part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200
> part pv.01 --size=1000 --grow
> part swap --size=1000 --maxsize=2000
> volgroup myvg pv.01
> logvol / --vgname=myvg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow
>
> %packages
> %end
>
> %pre
>
> wget "http://spacewalk1.sec/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/pre/profile/Centos6_x64-test:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization" -O /dev/null
>
> echo "Saving RHN keys..." > /dev/ttyS0
> SYSTEM_ID=/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
> rhn_keys_found=no
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/rhn
>
> drives=$(list-harddrives | awk '{print $1}')
> for disk in $drives; do
> DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | grep -v "swap\|LVM\|Extended" | awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"
> done
>
> # Try to find the keys on ordinary partitions
> for disk in $DISKS; do
> name=test-$(basename $disk)
> mkdir -p /tmp/$name
> mount $disk /tmp/$name
> [ $? -eq 0 ] || continue # Skip to the next partition if the mount fails
>
> # Copy current RHN host keys out to be reused
> if [ -f /tmp/${name}$SYSTEM_ID ]; then
> cp -a /tmp/${name}$SYSTEM_ID /tmp/rhn
> rhn_keys_found="yes"
> umount /tmp/$name
> break
> fi
> umount /tmp/$name
> rm -r /tmp/$name
> done
>
> # Try LVM if that didn't work
> if [ "$rhn_keys_found" = "no" ]; then
> lvm lvmdiskscan
> vgs=$(lvm vgs | tail -n +2 | awk '{ print $1 }')
> for vg in $vgs; do
> # Activate any VG we found
> lvm vgchange -ay $vg
> done
>
> lvs=$(lvm lvs | tail -n +2 | awk '{ print "/dev/" $2 "/" $1 }')
> for lv in $lvs; do
> tmpdir=$(mktemp -d findkeys.XXXXXX)
> mkdir -p /tmp/${tmpdir}
> mount $lv /tmp/${tmpdir} || continue # Skip to next volume if this fails
>
> # Let's see if the keys are in there
> if [ -f /tmp/${tmpdir}$SYSTEM_ID ]; then
> cp -a /tmp/${tmpdir}$SYSTEM_ID /tmp/rhn/
> rhn_keys_found="yes"
> umount /tmp/${tmpdir}
> break # We're done!
> fi
> umount /tmp/${tmpdir}
> rm -r /tmp/${tmpdir}
> done
>
> # And clean up..
> for vg in $vgs; do
> lvm vgchange -an $vg
> done
> fi
>
>
> %end
>
> %post --nochroot
> mkdir /mnt/sysimage/tmp/ks-tree-copy
> if [ -d /oldtmp/ks-tree-shadow ]; then
> cp -fa /oldtmp/ks-tree-shadow/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/ks-tree-copy
> elif [ -d /tmp/ks-tree-shadow ]; then
> cp -fa /tmp/ks-tree-shadow/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/ks-tree-copy
> fi
> cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/sysimage/etc/resolv.conf
> cp -f /tmp/ks-pre.log* /mnt/sysimage/root/ || :
>
> %end
>
> %post --nochroot --interpreter /usr/bin/python
> try:
> import xmlrpclib
> import shutil
> import sys
> import os.path
> old_system_id = "/tmp/rhn/systemid"
> new_system_id = "/mnt/sysimage/root/systemid.old"
>
> new_keys = "1-f8fa019b2fc1d692d9dcad6ce2ddbf8e"
> for key in new_keys.split(','):
> if key.startswith('re-'):
> sys.exit(0)
> if os.path.exists(old_system_id):
> client = xmlrpclib.Server("http://spacewalk1.sec/rpc/api")
> key = client.system.obtain_reactivation_key(open(old_system_id).read())
> f = open("/mnt/sysimage/tmp/key","w")
> f.write(key)
> f.close()
> shutil.copy(old_system_id, new_system_id)
> except:
> # xml rpc due to a old/bad system id
> # we don't care about those
> # we'll register those as new.
> pass
>
>
> %end
>
> %post --log /root/ks-rhn-post.log
>
>
> # --Begin Spacewalk command section--
> cat > /tmp/ssl-key-1 <<'EOF'
> ## <certificate removed by author>
>
> EOF
> # ssl-key1
> cat /tmp/ssl-key-* > /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> perl -pe 's/RHNS-CA-CERT/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT/g' -i /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional
> cd /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional
> wget -P /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional http://spacewalk1.sec/download/package/ecc93e74e509e28e0866753fa36ce6a469d2c3f9/0/1/5705/pyOpenSSL-0.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm http://spacewalk1.sec/download/package/67b0f77afcf12ec0e87c1dc501192699d5d5d27c/0/1/6295/rhnlib-2.5.51-1.el6.noarch.rpm http://spacewalk1.sec/download/package/52b9915e3a5adedb4420cbdcf37f3f33c733058a/0/1/6014/libxml2-python-2.7.6-4.el6_2.4.x86_64.rpm
> rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/pyOpenSSL* /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/rhnlib* /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/libxml2-python*
> perl -npe 's|^(\s*(noSSLS\|s)erverURL\s*=\s*[^:]+://)[^/]*/|${1}spacewalk1.sec/|' -i /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
>
> # now copy from the ks-tree we saved in the non-chroot checkout
> cp -fav /tmp/ks-tree-copy/* /
> rm -Rf /tmp/ks-tree-copy
> # --End Spacewalk command section--
>
> # begin cobbler snippet
> # set default MOTD
> echo "Kickstarted on $(date +'%Y-%m-%d')" >> /etc/motd
>
> # begin Red Hat management server registration
> mkdir -p /usr/share/rhn/
> wget http://spacewalk1.sec/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT -O /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> perl -npe 's/RHNS-CA-CERT/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT/g' -i /etc/sysconfig/rhn/*
> key=""
> if [ -f /tmp/key ]; then
> key=`cat /tmp/key`
> fi
>
> if [ $key ]; then
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk1.sec/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=$key,1-f8fa019b2fc1d692d9dcad6ce2ddbf8e
> else
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk1.sec/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=1-f8fa019b2fc1d692d9dcad6ce2ddbf8e
> fi
> # end Red Hat management server registration
>
> # end cobbler snippet
>
> rhn_check
>
> # Start post_install_network_config generated code
> # End post_install_network_config generated code
>
> %end
>
>
> %post
>
>
> # Start koan environment setup
> echo "export COBBLER_SERVER=spacewalk1.sec" > /etc/profile.d/cobbler.sh
> echo "setenv COBBLER_SERVER spacewalk1.sec" > /etc/profile.d/cobbler.csh
> # End koan environment setup
>
>
>
> wget "http://spacewalk1.sec/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/Centos6_x64-test:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization" -O /root/cobbler.ks
> wget "http://spacewalk1.sec/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/profile/Centos6_x64-test:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization" -O /dev/null
> %end
>
>
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