[Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL clients registered to Spacewalk

[Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro]

Hello Jason,

About your first question, I'm not sure about SLES, btw if you have 10
subscriptions or licenses (i don't know if SLES subscribe as license)
and download the packages to update only 10 servers, you are in
compliance, if you download from site or use another automated system
to do it, doesn't matter but if you have 10 subscriptions and are
updating 11 servers, you are not compliance, will be necessary by +1
subscription or license.

Imagine the scenario, 10 subscription and 100 servers! This is the problem.

Check with your sales vendor, they will give you the correct answer
for your scenario.

Take Care
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Jason Calafiore
<jason.calafiore at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  As I am testing spacewalk in our environment which includes SLES and RHEL,
> I came to some questions regarding the risks we face with regard to support
> which I hope the community could assist me with.
>
> 1. Does anyone currently use Spacewalk to manage SLES or RHEL servers in
> their environment. Have you encountered any issues where it invalidated your
> support?
>
> 2. According to SuSE/Novell Support they mentioned to me that Spacewalk is
> not a supported tool to download & manage packages, so essentially it would
> invalidate the support. This would be true even if i used SMT to download
> the package and push them into Spacewalk. On the other hand they would try
> to still provide support, but if in the case that we install 3rd party RPM's
> that is the cause of issue, they would not be able to support the system.
> Does anyone know what specific packages & dependencies would be installed or
> modified?
>
> 3. I only see steps to register OpenSuSE clients and not SLES on this page
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients Are there steps
> for SLES?
>
> 4. Is there a way to register a SLES server to Spacewalk without getting
> packages from openSuSE?
>
> Thank you,
> Jason
>
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