[Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

Tue Jun 16 20:42:13 UTC 2015

Hi  All,

 I still find we have not reached a solution to register a large group of
existing servers to Spacewalk easily. I would think there must be some
easier method than creating the yum repo, installing the packages and use
the bootstrap scripts.

I noticed if i just run the bootstrap.sh without installing the packages it
shows up in Spacewalk. I was wondering is it possible to use the bootstrap
script and then push out the required yum packages through spacewalk? Or
has someone found an easier way to register existing offline clients?

Thank you,

Jason

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Spacewalk

Good morning, Jason, et al.

To register an existing server, you’ll need to install the Spacewalk client
tools & libraries first.  That’ll extend the capabilities of yum (or the
appropriate update manager,) to communicate with a Spacewalk service.  Once
that’s done, you’ll need to run /usr/sbin/rhn_register, /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks
or the bootstrap script (bootstrap runs rhnreg_ks internally.)

The registration script normally gets generated into
/var/www/html/pub/bootstrap.

The bootstrap script does perform some other activities, such as a full
system update (through yum, zypper, etc.,) downloading SSL certs, and so
forth.  You might want to run it, you also might want to manually register
your clients, depending on your local requirements.

Jeff Kalchik

Systems Engineering

Land O’Lakes

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Hi Marino,

 I have add the spacewalk repo as a child for my base channels, but I am
dealing with the initial implementation of spacewalk in
my existing environment, so I don't understand how kickstart would be
applicable.

Can you explain a little more about the registration script? Where is it
exactly and how could i modify it as you are suggesting to register
existing servers?

Thank you,

Jason

_______________________________________________________________

I always include the spacewalk clients in a child repo of my base channels
then include it in my kickstarts. Then I can view the kickstart and pick
out the URI‎ yum has an option to install using an adhock yumrepo. Also you
may not be aware of this but spacewalk generates a boilerplate registration
script for you in the public directory for apache you can use as a template
to modify into your own custom registration script.

Additionally yum and the rpm command can install packages over a network by
specifying the URI as the package name.

*From: *Jason Calafiore

*Sent: *Wednesday, June 10, 2015 17:51

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*Subject: *[Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

Hi All,

 I am trying to figure out a an easy to register servers that are already
created and offline without have to reach out to the internet to get the
necessary packages.

The only way I could do this was to do the following below by creating a
yum repo with the necessary packages and then on a client server configure
a .repo file that get the necessary packages.

Is there any easier way to do this? I would think spacewalk would have an
easy way to register clients especially offline servers. I had asked this
before and someone suggested a scripts on github, but couldn't figure it
out.

Thanks,

Jason

Create Local Repo on the spacewalk Server

mkdir /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client

cd /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client

repotrack -a x86_64 -p /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client rhn-client-tools
rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin

rm *i686* -f

wget
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.3-client/RHEL/7/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-2.3-2.el7.noarch.rpm

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

creapterepo /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client

Register Server to Spacewalk

vi/etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-local.repo

[spacewalk-local-install-repo]

name=Spacewalk Client Install

baseurl=http://spacewalk-server.com/pub/spacewalk-client

gpgcheck=0

gpgkey=

enabled=1

Disable other repos in /yum.repos.d

yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto
yum-rhn-plugin

# rpm -Uvh
http://spacewalk-server.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
<http://ghslspacewalk.ds.src.bah.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm>

  rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk-server.com/XMLRPC
--sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
--activationkey=1-centos-server-7
<https://spacewalk-server.com/XMLRPC--sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT--activationkey=1-centos-server-7>

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