[Spacewalk-list] How to test Spacewalk Proxy

[Michael Mraka]

Jon Miller wrote:
% > % The webpage eventually returns and provides the following error:
% > % XML Parsing Error: no element found
% > % Location: http://spacewalk-dmz.example.com/ks/cfg/org/3/label/base
% > % Line Number 1, Column 1:
% > % 
% > % I have verified that my firewall is allowing ports 80, 443, 5269 via
% > % some telnet tests.
% > % 
% > % Here is what squid is seeing via it's access.log:
% > % 1373062140.709 120023 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/000 0 GET
% > % http://spacewalk-dmz.example.com/ks/cfg/org/3/label/base -
% > % DIRECT/spacewalk-dmz.example.com -
% > % 
% > % I'm not that familiar with squid but that almost reads to me like
% > % Squid is trying to retrieve the resource from the same dmz machine vs.
% > % my internal Spacewalk server. Should I be propagating the same DNS
% > % name in the dmz for my proxy as what I have internally?
% >
% > Hi Jon,
% >
% > the easiest way to test spacewlak proxy is to register a client to the
% > proxy.
% >
% > As for DNS - if you can see proxy registered in spacewalk's webUI and it
% > can update itself from the spacewalk then DNS setup is OK.
% I had originally registered my DMZ machine with the base organization
% and have since re-registered it with another active org and re-ran the
% configure-proxy.sh script. That completed and I now see the DMZ proxy
% machine listed in my proxy section with the internal Spacewalk UI. 
% 
% I have returned to my test of using a known, working kickstart URL to test the
% functionality of the DMZ and I'm still getting the XML error returned to
% the browser after a timeout period.
% 
% Does the proxy actually support imaging machines directly from it as I
% would from the internal Spacewalk server?

Yes, kickstarting via proxy should work, otherwise it's a bug.

If http://spacewalk-dmz.example.com/ks/cfg/org/3/label/base is an URL of
kickstart file on spacewalk server then 
http://spacewalk-proxy.example.com/ks/cfg/org/3/label/base should return
the same text file (with all references to spacewalk-dmz.example.com replaced
by references to spacewalk-proxy.example.com).


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat