[Spacewalk-list] Trigger script on spacewalk on activation

[Timothy Rees]

Hi all,

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm trying to limit the need to invoke
anything from the deployed client.  This is because:

1. It would save putting in security mechanisms to ensure only the
registered client make the call to Spacewalk
2. It would prevent issues where Spacewalk connectivity could be via a
proxy with no direct connection back to Spacewalk server
(NAT/firewalling etc).

So far, the best solution I have come up with is to create a temporary
group for deployed servers on Spacewalk server for each activation
key, and then add then join the systems to that group when they
activate.  Then I just just create a cron entry on the spacewalk
server to probe member of the group for new clients every minute.
Once a new client is found to run a number of required scripts (post
validation tests etc) and then to remove the client from that group.

It would be nice to be able to trigger such things instead though -
this would remove the need for cron and unnecessary load, if there is
a need for this and it is not present then perhaps I can put in a
feature request?

Cheers,
Tim

On 22 September 2014 14:01, Will D <will_d at nixpeeps.com> wrote:
> I had a similar requirement recently and through a little inventiveness, and
> some python/cgi scripting we basically create a http cgi call from the newly
> built system to the satellite during build time, that passed a few
> variables, and executed api calls to move the server to appropriate groups,
> configure custom variables and perform other satellite functions
> automatically.
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <waldirio at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Tim and list, good morning
>
> Tim when you say "grouped automatically", do you means sign a server in
> specific or more then one system group ??
>
> I did in a customer some months ago one script where the sysadmin answer
> some questions and at the end the client that will be registered did the
> download of bootstrap.sh and changed the activation keys accordind choices.
> Note, you can combine activation keys so in this case was so easy to do what
> you need.
>
> Let me know if help you.
>
> B'regards
> Waldirio
>
> Em 19/09/2014 04:25, "Timothy Rees" <reestr.uk at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Is there a builtin way to trigger a script on the spacewalk server to
>> run as soon as a new client is registered using an activation key?
>>
>> I have a requirement where registered clients are grouped
>> automatically and the output of a scheduled command is used to
>> determine which groups a client should be joined to.  Currently I have
>> this running out of cron on a schedule, however would like it to be
>> triggered when systems are registered, any way to achieve this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>>
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