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

[Jason Calafiore]

 Hi Bernhard,

Can you use the bootstrap.sh script to register the server?

 Jason

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[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Lichtinger, Bernhard
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Subject: [External] Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL
clients registered to Spacewalk



Hi,





> 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?



On the technical side it works fine.

We had only one support case so far and using spacewalk was no issue or
wasn't even looked at.



>

> 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?



We use the spacewalk-client rpms from suse openbuild service (OBS), to have
the same version as the spacewalk server:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:spacewalk

No additional dependencies are needed.



>

> 3. I only see steps to register OpenSuSE clients and not SLES on this
page https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClientsAre there
steps for SLES?



They are the same steps. But you have to use the appropriate repo from OBS:
SLES11.3 or SLES12.0. Or you try the SLES-included packages. See below.



>

> 4. Is there a way to register a SLES server to Spacewalk without getting
packages from openSuSE?

>

Yes, it is. Suse-Manager is based on spacewalk, so in SLES there are also
client-packages included, but they have different names and older versions.
E.g. in SLES11.3 you get version 1.7.



spacewalk-check (rhn_check)

spacewalk-client-setup (rhnreg_ks, spacewalk-channel)
spacewalk-client-tools (up2date) spacewalksd (rhnsd) zypp-plugin-spacewalk



So most of the time instead of rhn Suse uses spacewalk in package names.

I don't know if 1.7 client tools still work with an 2.3 spacewalk-server
(last time I tested it with spacewalk-2.1), but I guess it will work.





Regards,

Bernhard
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