[Spacewalk-list] Rename Spacewalk server

[William H. ten Bensel]

Just as FYI --> To avoid running the spaceawalk-hostname-rename scripts in 
the future and easily migrate from one server to another, you can use a 
cname for all of the details. 
        IE You can have a standby server with spacewalk installed on. Then 
all you have to do is flip the cname and some filesystems over to and the 
application is backup and running.  We have a required 99% uptime SLA for 
our environment. 
        
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2016-May/msg00129.html

1. DNS cname point to the A record of the server

2. Use the FQDN of the cname for the SSL cert

3.  update /etc/hosts
IP    (FQDN of cname)      (leaf domain of the cname or the characters 
before the first dot) 

4. update /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/hostname

Linux < 6 HOSTNAME=FQDN
Linux > 7 /etc/hostname should contain the FQDN of the cname

5. Update the hostname to the cname


Note: If you are using ISS, you have to specify the A records of the 
server as ISS in Spacewalk does not support cnames in this manner.  I had 
a ticket opened with our support and they closed this as a will not fix.

- Thanks and good luck




From:   Stuart Green <stuart.green at doccentrics.com>
To:     spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Date:   03/28/2018 02:14 PM
Subject:        Re: [Spacewalk-list] Rename Spacewalk server
Sent by:        spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com



You need to follow this process if you rename the host 
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/SpacewalkHostnameRename

On 28 March 2018 at 18:19, Yakin, Francis <Francis.Yakin at windriver.com> 
wrote:
Can I rename the server’s name? Without affecting the functionality?
 
Thanks
 
Francis Yakin | IT System Admin |  direct: 510-749-2027
500 Wind River Way, Alameda, CA  94501 
   
AN INTEL COMPANY
 

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