[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.7 provisioning centos 6.3
Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)
GregWojtak at quickenloans.com
Mon Sep 24 14:08:31 UTC 2012
Whoops. I'm running 1.6, not sure if that matters or not. Just been
waiting for 1.8 to upgrade. :)
I am able to confirm successful kickstarting/provisioning of 64-bit Cent
6.3 clients from spacewalk 1.6 server running postgresql on 64-bit Cent
6.3.
Greg Wojtak
Sr. Unix Systems Engineer
Office: (313) 373-4306
Cell: (734) 718-8472
On 2012-09-24 9:49 AM, "Lint Thomas" <Thomas.Lint at external.t-systems.at>
wrote:
>Okay thanks for your answer.
>
>So you can confirm spacewalk 1.7 provisioning does work with centos 6.3
>in a 64bit environment?
>
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>[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Wojtak, Greg
>(Superfly)
>Gesendet: Montag, 24. September 2012 15:44
>An: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.7 provisioning centos 6.3
>
>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.a
>t>>
>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/ecc93e74e509e28e0866753fa36ce6a469d
>2c3f9/0/1/5705/pyOpenSSL-0.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>http://spacewalk1.sec/download/package/67b0f77afcf12ec0e87c1dc501192699d5d
>5d27c/0/1/6295/rhnlib-2.5.51-1.el6.noarch.rpm
>http://spacewalk1.sec/download/package/52b9915e3a5adedb4420cbdcf37f3f33c73
>3058a/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:Spacewalk
>DefaultOrganization" -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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