[Spacewalk-list] Configuration Management - Dependencies

Fri May 30 09:01:22 UTC 2014

Hi Przemyslaw,

I looked that before it went subscription and indeed it looked a great 
product, is it right you can only control 10 systems for free in the 
current version?

Cheers,
Stuart

> Hi all,
>
> I have tried some time ago to do the same but nowadays we use Ansible 
> for that kind of tasks (migrated from Puppet …).
>
> It took me 30 minutes to read about Ansible (less then digging into 
> Satellite manuals ;-) ).
>
> It is so flexible (and easy to install – no agents on nodes !) that we 
> won’t  use neither Puppet nor Satellite to do that kind of tasks.
>
> Best regards
>
> P.
>
> *From:*spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Stuart Green
> *Sent:* 30 May 2014 09:29
> *To:* Matthew Madey; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configuration Management - Dependencies
>
> That's excellent information, thank's for taking the time Matt.
>
>     You may be able to achieve this using the Configuration Channel
>     ranks under Activation Keys.. but this will only work when you are
>     first registering the client to Spacewalk.. once it is registered
>     I don't think you can achieve what you are trying to do using
>     Configuration Channels.. this sounds more like a job for Puppet..
>     you could however put a script that does what you need as a
>     configuration file, and use Remote Actions to run it on the
>     selected clients.
>
>     I use the API heavily for these kinds of tasks.. there is a great
>     little python script out there on Github for scheduling remote
>     actions on clients. Basically all you have to do is create the
>     script you want to run on a client, and pipe it to this python script:
>
>     https://github.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/tree/master/spacewalk-schedule-scriptrun
>
>     On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Stuart Green
>     <stuart.green at doccentrics.com
>     <mailto:stuart.green at doccentrics.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,
>
>     Is there a way to make one configuration management channel change
>     dependant on another.
>
>     In this case, I have two steps.
>
>     Create a new directory on the client
>     Create a new file on the client within the new directory
>
>     I want to make sure the 1st step happens before the 2nd, so the
>     2nd step does not fail, is it possible?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Stu
>
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