[Spacewalk-list] Update hosts names in SP

[William H. ten Bensel]

I am making the assumption that you are referring to the spacewalk profile 
id, let say abc123 and the hostname is now xyz123:


On server/device /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid will have the abc123:

<name>profile_name</name>
<value><string>abc123</string></value>


Now you want to rename the spacewalk profile:

        # spacecmd -s spacewalk.domain 
        spacemcd >> system_rename abc123 xyz123

Re-register/reactivate: (2 ways of doing this)

1. Via UI and Server.
        GO to the server in spacewalk -> reactivation -> Generate key.
        ON the server:
         rhnreg_ks --force --serverUrl=https://spacewalk.domain/XMLRPC 
--sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT 
--activationkey=key-from-gui
        Validate:
        /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid ---> 

2.   Write a perl/python/java script which runs on the server/device (or 
you can schedule a script run to re-register with the activation key) that 
does something like the following (Sorry: not the full code)

        system_id = "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid"
        rhn_cert = "/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT"
        keys = sys.argv[1:]

        if os.path.exists(rhn_cert):
                for line in open(rhn_cert):
                        if "OU=xxxxx=" in line:
                                http_server=line.split("OU=xxxx=")[-1]
                                http_server=str(http_server.rstrip())
                                http_xml="http://" + http_server + 
"/XMLRPC"
                                http_server="http://" + http_server + 
"/rpc/api"
                if not http_server:
                        http_server="http://xxxxxx/rpc/api"

        if os.path.exists(system_id):
                if os.path.exists(system_id):
                        client = xmlrpclib.Server(http_server)
 
keys.append(client.system.obtain_reactivation_key(open(system_id).read()))


        command = "rhnreg_ks --force --activationkey=" + string.join(keys, 
",")
        os.system(command)


- Thanks and good luck




From:   Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com>
To:     spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Date:   05/04/2016 01:46 AM
Subject:        [Spacewalk-list] Update hosts names in SP
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If I run rhn-profile-sync on hosts then if I click on  a host in SP I see 
the actual hostname.

But does spacewalk has a mechanism to update the host name in SP and set 
in equal to actual hostname?
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