[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Server on Opensuse

Wed Dec 16 19:01:27 UTC 2015

Your assumption was correct, I wanted to install a Spacewalk Server on Opensuse. I have it, now, installed on CentOS6.6. Was trying to stay with our Linux vendor of choice. Too much time consumed looking for documentation.

Thanks in advance.

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   1. Re: Spacewalk 2.4 on OpenSuSE LEAP 42.1 (Bernd Helber)
   2. Re: Spacewalk 2.4 on OpenSuSE LEAP 42.1 (Duncan Mac-Vicar P.)
   3. Re: Configure Firewalld in Kickstart-Script (Sean Johnson)
   4. Re: Configure Firewalld in Kickstart-Script (Neil Watson)
   5. Re: Spacewalk 2.4 reposync not running after	upgrade
      (Coffman, Anthony J)
   6. compare-configs-default (compare-config-bunch) -	DB high CPU
      usage (William H. ten Bensel)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:09:57 +0100
From: Bernd Helber <bernd at helber-it-services.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4 on OpenSuSE LEAP 42.1
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Good evening. :-)

am i right if i assume that you want to install a Spacewalk Server on Opensuse?

Or do you want to install the Spacwalk Client tools?

Cause its a big difference.

If you want install a Spacewalk Server, it may be the best Choice to use CentOS.

If you want to install the Client Tools you may have a look at the Documentation, :-)

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
And for registering the Clients to the Spacewalk Server  have a look at this Mailing List Posting from one of the SuSE Engineers.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-February/msg00057.ht
ml

Hope that helps and take care.

Kind regards.

Bernd helber

Am 15.12.15 um 18:41 schrieb Taylor, Thomas E at DOT:
> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> Not sure how to proceed with the configuration of Spacewalk 2.4.23 on 
> OpenSuSE Leap 42.1 There seems to be limited documentation on using 
> Spacewalk on OpenSuSE, as I not able to find anything related to 
> configuring the software, after the packages get installed onto the 
> system. Please assist. Thanks in advance.
> 
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> Virtualization: vmware
> 
> Operating System: openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)
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> Kernel: Linux 4.1.13-5-default
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> Thomas E. Taylor Systems Software Specialist, Operating Systems 
> Support/Unix California Department of Transportation 916-445-5886
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with kind regards

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:05:24 +0100
From: "Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar at suse.de>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Cc: thomas.taylor at dot.ca.gov
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4 on OpenSuSE LEAP 42.1
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On 12/15/2015 06:41 PM, Taylor, Thomas E at DOT wrote:
> /Good Morning, /
> 
> /Not sure how to proceed with the configuration of Spacewalk 2.4.23 on 
> OpenSuSE Leap 42.1 /
> 

Do you want to register a Leap 42.1 client against a Spacewalk server or run Spacewalk server on top of Leap 42.1

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Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - http://www.suse.com/

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imend?rffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG N?rnberg) Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:09:47 -0600
From: "Sean Johnson" <sean at ttys0.net>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configure Firewalld in Kickstart-Script
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You would be better served to manage your firewall rules post installation via some form of configuration management. In my case, the post section of kickstart is only for getting CFEngine setup, which then proceeds to do all the rest of the setup, including firewall rules.

On 15 Dec 2015, at 5:33, Philipp Wehling wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to fully automate my linux-installation process. For that, 
> specific firewall-rules are needed.
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> I created a post-installation script like that:
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> systemctl restart firewalld
> firewall-cmd --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source 
> address="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" port port="xxxx" protocol="tcp" accept'
> --permanent
> firewall-cmd --reload
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> But this wont work. It tells me the following:
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> systemctl restart firewalld --> Running in chroot, ignoring request 
> firewall-cmd --add-rich-rule=... --> FirewallD is not running 
> firewall-cmd --reload --> FirewallD is not running
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> I was trying to run as nochroot-script, but then it isnt executed at 
> all ...
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> Any help?
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> kind regards,
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> Philipp Wehling
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:15:59 -0500
From: Neil Watson <neil at watson-wilson.ca>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configure Firewalld in Kickstart-Script
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 09:09:47AM -0600, Sean Johnson wrote:
>You would be better served to manage your firewall rules post 
>installation via some form of configuration management. In my case, the 
>post section of kickstart is only for getting CFEngine setup, which 
>then proceeds to do all the rest of the setup, including firewall 
>rules.

++ Kickstart can be unreliable and only works once at install. Use it as
little as possible and let configuration management continuously maintain your hosts.

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Neil Watson
Linux/UNIX Consultant
http://watson-wilson.ca

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:33:39 +0000
From: "Coffman, Anthony J" <Tony.Coffman at snapon.com>
To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4 reposync not running after
	upgrade
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Has anybody else run into this issue on Spacewalk 2.4?  Is there any way to revert to the previous reposync behavior?

The previous behavior (when overlapping repo synchs were run, they would queue up and execute serially) was quite nice and I'd like to get back to that if possible.

--Tony

From: Coffman, Anthony J
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 2:35 PM
To: 'spacewalk-list at redhat.com' <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Spacewalk 2.4 reposync not running after upgrade

Follow up on this.  I've spent more time looking at it and the change in behavior seems to be that when multiple repo synchonizations are scheduled overlapping, it'll will run one of them but the rest don't run (no mention in the log except for the API request).

So the first one runs but the rest don't.  If I very carefully and painfully run then one at a time, waiting for one to complete before starting another, they run normally.

Has anybody else seen this behavior on 2.4?

Regards,
--Tony

From: Coffman, Anthony J
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 8:31 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Spacewalk 2.4 reposync not running after upgrade

I upgraded 2.3 -> 2.4 over the weekend and noticed that my reposyncs stopped running according to their schedules.

I changed a few schedules by one minute and hit the schedule button and that seems to have fixed those.  On others, I merely hit the schedule button again with the same schedule but they didn't run.

So I guess I need to reschedule the whole lot?

Has anybody else run into this?

Regards,
--Tony

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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:49:00 -0600
From: "William H. ten Bensel" <WHTENBEN at up.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] compare-configs-default
	(compare-config-bunch) -	DB high CPU usage
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Is there any way to reduce the CPU usage via a configuration change (ie 
only schedule on % servers during these specified times), batch run time 
change, or increase the time between the scheduled tasks for each server?
Any other ideas/suggestions on how to reduce the CPU usage for this task?

- Thanks in advance

Issue:
        CPU performance issues (90 - 100% usage) on external Oracle 11G 
Database server when the Administrator task compare-configs-default 
(compare-config-bunch) is ran.  SQL information below.
        Previous related issue: 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2013-August/msg00016.html 
where the job was disabled.

Current work around:

         Admin -> Task Schedules -> compare-configs-default 
(compare-config-bunch) : disabled

Configuration:
        Application: Spacewalk 2.3

        Registered Servers: 8k+

        Task job: compare-configs-default scheduled at 23:00 daily

        Orgs : 2
        Config Channels per org: 11
        Config files per org: 34 
        Largest config file: 64KB

        External DB Hardware:
                processor_hyperthreading : disabled
                processor_num_cores : 8
                processor_num_sockets : 2
                processor_total : 16
                processor_speed : 2400 MHz
                memory_RAM: 32 G

        Spacewalk 2.3 Hardware:
                processor_hyperthreading : enabled
                processor_num_cores : 6
                processor_num_sockets : 2
                processor_total : 24
                processor_speed : 2000 MHz
                memory_RAM: 32 G

SQL Information:

select cfn.path, cc.label config_channel, ccont.contents file_contents, 
ccont.is_binary is_binary, c.checksum_type, c.checksum, ccont.delim_start, 
ccont.delim_end, cr.revision, ci.username, ci.groupname, ci.filemode, 
cft.label, ci.selinux_ctx, case when cft.label='symlink' then
(select path
from rhnConfigFileName
where id = ci.SYMLINK_TARGET_FILENAME_ID) else '' end as symlink
from rhnConfigFileState cfs, rhnConfigChannel cc, rhnConfigFileName cfn, 
rhnConfigInfo ci, rhnConfigFile cf, rhnConfigRevision cr left join 
rhnConfigContent ccont on cr.config_content_id = ccont.id left join 
rhnChecksumView c on ccont.checksum_id = c.id, rhnConfigFileType cft, 
rhnActionConfigRevision acr
where acr.server_id = :server_id and acr.action_id = :action_id and 
acr.config_revision_id = cr.id and cr.config_file_id = cf.id and 
cr.config_info_id = ci.id and cf.config_file_name_id = cfn.id and 
cf.config_channel_id = cc.id and cf.state_id = cfs.id and cfs.label = 
'alive' and cr.config_file_type_id = cft.id 

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/schema-doc/view-RHNUSERACTIONOVERVIEW.html

ACTION_STATUS
----------------
Queued
Picked Up
Failed
Completed

SQL> select count(*) from RHNUSERACTIONOVERVIEW where 
ACTION_STATUS='Queued';
Press return to continue

  COUNT(*)
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     21768

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