[Spacewalk-list] redhat channel in spacewalk

YANG LI yangli at clemson.edu
Sat Dec 6 00:08:37 UTC 2014 

Hi Jeremy,

Here is repository configuration page:

repository label:
repository URL:
SSL CA Certificate:
SSL Client Certificate:
SSL Client Key:
Filters:

I suppose we put "https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os" in repository URL for Redhat Linux 6 (X86_64)? what should be used for those certificates?

Thanks,
Yang
On Dec 4, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Jeremy Maes <jma at schaubroeck.be<mailto:jma at schaubroeck.be>> wrote:

No, since spacewalk 2.1 you no longer need to use mrepo but you can sync the RHEL channels directly with spacewalk-repo-sync.

Just take a peek at the repo configuration options in the webinterface and notice that you can add SSL certs, which is what RHN uses nowadays. You can get the certs via the RHEL customer portal.

More details you won't find I'm afraid. It's a nice project to get it working but I can assure you it works and once you get it up and running you'll be happy to be rid of any extra scripts/daemons/... (maybe Paul Robert Marino gave extra info in the past, just try searching the mailing list archives as he keeps repeating to everyone asking this question ;))

As Waldirio also mentioned, technically as long as your spacewalk host has an RHEL subscription and all your RHEL spacewalk clients do too, you should be OK license-wise.

Regards
Jeremy

Ethan Bonick schreef op 04/12/2014 om 17:02:
Just so I get this straight we need to always having a running copy subscribed to RHEL and then mirror the repo to that mahcine and then remirror to SW? That seems like a very convoluted process. Too bad we can't log into the repo's the way suse does. When I get around to it, I'll see if I can figure out a better way. Thanks guys for not making us reinvent the wheel. :)

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <waldirio at gmail.com<mailto:waldirio at gmail.com>> wrote:
Daryl

You can follow the Jean orientation, perfect. ;-), one point is, if you need more the one version (RHEL5, RHEL6, RHEL7 for example), you need configure 3 VM's :-)), because your rhel machine will be subscribed just in one base channel.

If you know how to configure multiples channel in the same OS please share us!

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com<mailto:darylrose at outlook.com>> wrote:
Waldirio,

I do have RHEL subscriptions, but I'm not ready to set this up just yet.  I'll probably look into it more after the first of the year, so I may ask follow up question's on how to configure SW for RHN.

Thank you.

Daryl


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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] FW: redhat channel in spacewalk

Daryl

Happy for help. About SW support RHEL, in theory is not supported (so this is a RHN Satellite feature), although technically you can add. About be in compliance, since you share rpm packages to your rhel environment, but to all RHEL's that you have subscription, no problem. What you CANNOT do is, you have 1 rhel subscription, use this account to download rpm files and have 100 rhels registered in your SW receiving packages and updates.

Ps.: I checked this with redhat a long time ago, would be grateful if our Red Hatters friends tell us something about it.

Downloading rpm from redhat, the process is the same, you can configure a local repo and sync them or if you download a rpm package, you can send to channel via rhnpush.

Let me know if you have additional doubts.

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com<mailto:darylrose at outlook.com>> wrote:
Waldirio,

Thank you for the explanation. I understand your explanation.  The reason why I'm looking at Spacewalk is because I don't think that I can afford Satellite.  I'll look into the cost and see if it fits the budget or not.

Your final comment said that RHEL repo can also be add to Spacewalk, but the documentation say's that SW cannot be used with RHEL repo.  Can you please point me to the older posts that show how to add the RHEL repo?

Thanks

Daryl

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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 20:09:29 -0200
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] FW: redhat channel in spacewalk


Daryl

Spacewalk is the RHN Satellite Project, so using Spacewalk you don't have support, updates, etc

RHN Satellite is a enterprise product, with support, updates, etc

When you buy the RHN Satellite Subscription, you can buy a "full version" or started pack, full version is, if you have 10 RHEL's, the certificate generated will come with 10 subscriptions, if you have 1k, your subscription will come with 1k subscriptions. There are details about unlimited guests, but we will not talk about it now.

When you install SW, you have a certificate to 20k servers, according bellow:

###
<rhn-cert version="0.1">
  <rhn-cert-field name="product">SPACEWALK-001</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="owner">Spacewalk Default Organization</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="issued">2007-07-13 00:00:00</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="expires">2018-07-13 00:00:00</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="slots">20000</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="monitoring-slots">20000</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="provisioning-slots">20000</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="virtualization_host">20000</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="virtualization_host_platform">20000</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="satellite-version">spacewalk</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="generation">2</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-signature>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iEYEABECAAYFAlNg/40ACgkQnnKdrwaUeTIXqwCgmRiTmzFuO7x3bitYPWcJFsZe
UPgAn0kTzWo7xUGDpedM0No9nEnWa84P
=FTXc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
</rhn-cert-signature>
###

So, to conclude, if you have the opportunity to use RHN Satellite, you can do this, and add another OS's as repo. Pay attention, each server that you add in RHN Satellite, will user a Smart Management addon.

If not, don't worry, you can add rhel repo, according various older posts.

Let me know if the answer is satisfactory! :-)

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On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com<mailto:darylrose at outlook.com>> wrote:
Waldirio,

I would like to probe this a little further.

Does a person have to have a "Satellite Server" in order to have a Satellite subscription?  Or, can a person get satellite subscriptions separate and use them with Spacewalk?

Thank you

Daryl

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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] redhat channel in spacewalk
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Hello Yang

One question, do you have RHEL Subscription ?!, if yes, do you have RHN Satellite subscription ?!, according the quantity of your RHEL environment, you can buy the RHN Satellite subscription to your company and add another OS as repo/channel. The difference is, using RHN Satellite you will use the redhat support, update, erratas, etc.

Check with your redhat sales person about it., you can get RHN Satellite Starter Pack (up to 50 subscriptions), the price is cool! ;-)

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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:48 PM, YANG LI <yangli at clemson.edu<mailto:yangli at clemson.edu>> wrote:
we have different OS such as SLE, RHEL and OL. we would like to manage all our OS patching in one place if possible. is it possible to use spacewalk to get redhat channel?

Thanks,
Yang

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