[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk email notifications

[Tomas Lestach]

On Friday 14 of December 2012 13:41:26 harold robin hechanova wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully configured spacewalk 1.8 on RHEL6.1 server with
> postgresql as database. I created a base channel for fedora 17 and populate
> it. I registered a test_client running on fedora 17 on the spacewalk server
> and manage to install update packages via spacewalk. I can see 409 Errata
> and 859 Packages for Update on the Spacewalk GUI for the test client. How
> can I automate an email notification indicating the Errata and Updated
> Packages to be sent to the admin email? I have already enable monitoring
> under Admin->Spacewalk Configuration

Monitoring has no effect on errata notification.

> and activated schedule tasks for
> errata-cache and daily-status.

Activated schedule errata-cache and daily-status?
What do you mean? These schedules are activated by default and it's strongly 
recommended NOT to disable them until you really know what you are doing.

> Please advise since I can only see the
> following on the daily status report.
> 
> This is the Spacewalk Status Report for your account admin, as of 12/14/12
> 11:45:09 AM SGT.
> 
> 
> 
> This email will be sent when any of the following apply:
> 
> 
> 
> 1.  The system fails to check in with Spacewalk within a 24-hour window.
> 
> 2.  The system registers scheduled action activity.
> 
>                               Completed
> 
> Package List Refresh          2

This e-mail is produced by the daily-status.

errata-queue has be scheduled as well for errata processing (and afterwards 
for errata notifications).

> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> Harold

Regards,
-- 
Tomas Lestach
RHN Satellite Engineering