[Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates

[Paul Robert Marino]

I have had success with a weekly cron job to clean out the jabber database

service jabberd stop
rm -Rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/*
 service jabberd start
service osa-dispacher restart






On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Matt Moldvan <matt at moldvan.com> wrote:
> I'm with Maxime... I spent months trying to get OSAD to work properly, and
> we recently had a major issue with some network equipment that lead to many
> OSAD clients going offline.  Personally I'm just about done with it and
> ready to implement a cron job to do rhn_check every 5 minutes...
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:44 AM Maxime VEROONE <maxime.veroone at nordnet.fr>
> wrote:
>>
>> We have personally chosen to restart both the whole jabberd/osa-dispatcher
>> stack and the osad clients every morning.
>> We banged our heads way too much trying to figure out why osad clients
>> randomly loose communications with the server without any log/alert/crash
>>
>> Maxime VEROONE
>> Capensis SARL
>> Lille, France
>>
>> De : spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] De la part de Matthew Madey
>> Envoyé : vendredi 13 mai 2016 16:27
>> À : spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> Objet : Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates
>>
>> Are there any errors in /var/log/rhn/osa-dispatcher.log? Also try running
>> the below command on your clients
>> rm -f /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf;   service osad restart
>> If you are running a host firewall or have firewalls in place on your
>> network, ensure port 5222 is open between clients and your Spacewalk server
>> On May 13, 2016 8:44 AM, "Daryl Rose" <darylrose at outlook.com> wrote:
>> OSAD is not picking up scheduled updates.    To the best of my knowledge,
>> everything is running and I don't see any errors on the server or on the
>> clients.  osad is running on the client, osa-dispatcher as well as the
>> jabberd processes are running on the server.   The packages will be picked
>> up and applied by rhnsd, but I have to wait for it to check in.   I would
>> like to have the packages picked up immediately via osad.
>>
>> BTW, I'm using SW version 2.3.
>>
>> Any thoughts on why osad isn't picking up packages?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Daryl
>>
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