[Spacewalk-list] Automatically Registering VM Clones as SPacewalk Clients

[Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL]

Hello All-

 

My apologies if this has been covered somewhere before, but I'm trying to
determine the best method of automating spacewalk client registration in a
virtual environment and surprisingly enough I haven't found much.  Right
now, we are using VMware CentOS 6 templates as base images for client
machines.  We have a handful of scripts set up to automate other tasks such
as hostname/IP changes, but I'm not sure the best way to handle spacewalk
registration.  Has anyone set this up before that may have some experiences
to share? 

 

I don't think we want to go down the road of using kickstart as most of the
configuration we need is already done on the template, unless there is a
"light" way of using it to run simple post install scripts?  And I'm pretty
sure we can't register the template to spacewalk otherwise we would have to
deal with duplicate systems showing up in the inventory, or at least I think
we would.  I'm leaning towards using a template with the necessary packages
installed but not registered to spacewalk, with a script in rc.local which
will check to see if the machine is registered to spacewalk (not sure how
yet) and then run the rhnreg command if not.  Thoughts anyone?

 

Thanks in advance,

-Jon

 

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