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

[Thomas Foster]

If you are not using puppet, then the way we have it is setup
activationkeys that have all of the channels that I want my systems to have
when they bootup.  You can then run the rhnreg_ks command to register your
server using a rc.local script that removes itself after running the
registration..then send the output of the command to yourself for testing.
 The activationkeys are pretty smooth.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Foster <thomas.foster80 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you using puppet?
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> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL <
> jrglenni at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
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>> 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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