[Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates

Mon May 16 18:19:52 UTC 2016

Client, it allows you to run remote commands on your machine

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com> wrote:

> Robert,
>
> I am not aware of "rhn-action-control -- enable-all". Where is this
> executed? Server, client?  What does the command do?
>
> I checked for the command on both the SW server and on a client.  I don't
> see that command anywhere.  What package would it be found in?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Daryl
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
> on behalf of Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 1:12 AM
> To: Sorensen, Paul - (p)
> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates
>
> I really don't understand, why many people have problems using osad.
>
> In our production environment (500+ server), this is working. The only
> problem I have is "load" when you want to do something on many servers.
> Then, performance is going down.
>
> But I don't know, what's the difference in mine and your setups. I
> register server to spacewalk, enable all remote actions and install osad.
> Done!
>
> You're all using SSL with osad, right? You all have enabled remote
> controls? (rhn-action-control --enable-all)
>
> My only problem I ever had was somebody cloned a VM (already registered)
> and did not remove the osad-auth file so both systems logged into jabber
> server with the same "credentials" kicking out.
>
> Regards
> Robert
> Am 13.05.2016 19:18 schrieb "Sorensen, Paul - (p)" <pauls at telenav.com>:
> >
> > Is that the only piece OSAD on the client does?  I’ve also spent several
> months trying to get OSAD working consistently, with little luck.   Seems
> like a cron job is the better route all around – consistent, reliable,
> simple.
> >
> >
> >
> > What about “rhncfg-client get” – do you not manage configuration files
> as well?
> >
> >
> >
> > There is a mention of replacing OSAD here:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/BrainBox
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matt Moldvan
> > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 9:14 AM
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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