[Spacewalk-list] Testing spacewalk systems management software

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:25:10PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have setup Spacewalk systems management software in my LAN segment. Not
> > sure how do i test spacewalk server and the client machines to talk to
> > spacewalk server if there are any new patches or updates or errata being
> > available. Please help me understand the difference between update and
> > errata.
>
> Update is a new version (release) of package. Errata is a metadata on
> top of some rpms version (releases), grouping it together, adding some
> more information. When you apply an errata, on the client new package
> versions get installed (upgraded).
>
>
Thanks Jan for the quick reply. Any methodology to test if my spacewalk
systems management server is working as per the best practices. Please
suggest if there are howtos or step by step method to test spacewalk server
and client systems.

Regards

Kaushal
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