[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Systems Physical Systems ?

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:21:27 -0400, Boyd, Robert wrote
> [UTF-8?]I’m confused by your reply.   [UTF-8?]I’m not talking about RHEL6.  
[UTF-8?]I’m talking 
> about CentOS/RHEL4.  The repository for CentOS4 seems to have been killed or 
> moved.  The wiki page refers to this:
> 
> # rpm -ivh
http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/spacewalk-client-tools-0.0-1.noarch.rpm
> Well [UTF-8?]…. There is no stahnma.fedorapeople.org anymore.   Would someone care 
> to update this information to either declare where this repository now lives 
> or declare that there is no longer any support for RHEL4 client tools?  I must 
> admit [UTF-8?]I’m a bit puzzled about why this is still in the wiki.
> 
> I looked at the repo config on one of these RHEL4 servers and see this:
> 
> Ø  rpm -q --filesbypkg spacewalk-client-tools
> spacewalk-client-tools    /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/SPACEWALK-CLIENT-TOOLS-RPM-GPG-KEY
> spacewalk-client-tools    /etc/yum.repos.d/GPL
> spacewalk-client-tools    /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-client-tools.repo
> spacewalk-client-tools    /usr/share/doc/spacewalk-client-tools-0.0
> spacewalk-client-tools    /usr/share/doc/spacewalk-client-tools-0.0/GPL
> 
> Ø  less /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-client-tools.repo
> [spacewalk-client-tools]
> name=Spacewalk Client Tools - $basearch
> baseurl=http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/$releasever/$basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/SPACEWALK-CLIENT-TOOLS-RPM-GPG-KEY
> 
> [spacewalk-client-tools-source]
> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source
> baseurl=http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/$releasever/SRPMS
> failovermethod=priority
> enabled=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/SPACEWALK-CLIENT-TOOLS-RPM-GPG-KEY
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> Robert Boyd
> Sr. Systems Engineer
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Justin Edmands
 Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 
> 5:04 PM
 To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
 Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 
> Spacewalk Systems Physical Systems ?
> 
> on the client run "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync".
> If that fails, run a "yum whatprovides /usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync" -or- "rpm 
> -qf /usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync". Install the corresponding package as it may 
> have been originally packaged separate of rhn-client-tools.
> 
> in my case, the result is:
> 
> rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el6.noarch : Support programs and libraries for Red 
> Hat Network or Spacewalk
 Repo        : spacewalk-client
 Matched from:
 
> Filename    : /usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync
> 
> a quick google showed that someone originally made the client tools and 
> published to fedoraproject for rhel4/5. http://en.it-
> usenet.org/thread/19251/15/
> 
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Boyd, Robert 
> <Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com<mailto:Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com>> wrote:
 I 
> tried hardware refresh followed by rhn_check on the client.   I tried delete 
> and reregister.   [UTF-8?]I’m not sure what this rhn-profile-sync is that you refer 
> to.   Some of these servers are on RHEL4 and I [UTF-8?]don’t see anything named like 
> that.
> 
> Robert Boyd
> Sr. Systems Engineer
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> bounces at redhat.com> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Systems Physical Systems ?
> 
> I believe it uses dmidecode information to make the determination. Have you 
> tried scheduling a hardware refresh in the GUI for the affected systems? You 
> can also do rhn-profile-sync locally on the system
 On Jun 26, 2014 2:09 PM, 
> "Boyd, Robert" 
> <Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com<mailto:Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com>> wrote:
>  How does Spacewalk determine that a server is physical when selecting the 
> Systems -> Physical Systems button?
> 
> I have a few former physical servers that were virtualized.   I tried re-
> registering them.    This succeeded in changing the status of some of them 
> from physical to virtual, but there are an equal number that are still being 
> flagged as physical, even though I can see when I click on the Hardware tab 
> for each of them that VMware is the manufacturer.
> 
> Any pointers to clearing this up would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert Boyd
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> PeopleFluent
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RHEL4/CentOS 4 was EOL'd some time ago.  I'd be extremely surprised if there were any
repos out there that still support it.

Dimitri

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