[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Monitoring Scout to external/NATed hosts

[Justin Edmands]

Thanks for your input Brian. I did stumble upon your post from 2010 before
posting. It's a shame that ~3.5 years hasn't made a difference in the
development. What did you end up using to tackle this?

http://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2010-November/msg00051.html


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Brian Collins <brianc at sedata.com> wrote:

>  We wanted to do this exact thing using Satellite.  99% of our hosts are
> outside our network, behind NAT.  And the answer has been a polite but
> consistent, "The product can't do that, and there are no plans to make that
> happen."
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> So we use a different monitoring tool.
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> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Justin Edmands
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:12 PM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Monitoring Scout to external/NATed
> hosts
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> Our Spacewalk environment is used to manage purely external devices. We
> have them running fedora and use OSA (when it isn't blocked by the client)
> to get mostly everything accomplished. I want to start using the Monitoring
> Scout to give me more details about all of the systems. As it sits, not
> much documentation exists in the Spacewalk world. I used RedHat Satellite
> docs to get a better understanding of the tool.
>
> So how can I monitor the hosts out in the field? They are certainly all
> NATed and work purely based on checking in. Just to clarify, monitoring
> scout simply SSHs into your system on 4545 as nocpulse and executes a
> command?
>
> I could be overlooking what OSA, or other RHN stuff, would do in this
> case.
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