[Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Tue Dec 11 16:51:37 UTC 2018

Hi Phil

The answer is staring you in the face in red: the RHEL repos use a certificate which your system doesn’t trust. You’ll need to fetch a copy of the cert and install it into your appropriate PKI tools on the Spacewalk server (part of the OS, not Spacewalk) to allow it to trust the certificate.

You’re very much not the only person to have raised this on this mailing list – a check of the archives might help you!

Graeme

From: <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of "P.Cookson at bham.ac.uk" <P.Cookson at bham.ac.uk>
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Date: Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 16:39
To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Hi Jeffrey

I haven’t had much success patching RHEL systems with my original proof of concept (PoC) environment that had Spacewalk 2.8 installed on an OEL 7 server.

I’ve therefore, created a 2nd PoC environment with Spacewalk 2.8 installed on a RHEL 7 server, as you’ve described. I’ve left the RHEL 7 server repo (rhel-7-server-rpms) with its default configuration, as you have below, but when I try and sync I see the following error:

[root@<server name> yum.repos.d]# cat /var/log/rhn/reposync/rhel7_x86_64.log
2018/12/11 15:50:42 +01:00 Command: ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'rhel7_x86_64', '--type', 'yum']
2018/12/11 15:50:42 +01:00 Sync of channel started.
2018/12/11 15:50:42 +01:00
2018/12/11 15:50:42 +01:00   Processing repository with URL: https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/$basearch/os
2018/12/11 15:50:43 +01:00 ERROR: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from rhel7_x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/$basearch/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#60 - "Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user."
2018/12/11 15:50:43 +01:00 ERROR: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from rhel7_x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/$basearch/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#60 - "Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user."
2018/12/11 15:50:43 +01:00 Sync of channel completed in 0:00:00.
[root@<server name>yum.repos.d]#

Did you perform some additional configuration perhaps/any ideas? Might be useful if you could forward a screen dump of your channel/repo setup screen for RHEL 7, from the Web UI, too?

Regards
Phil

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Jeffrey.Irwin at rivertechllc.com
Sent: 27 November 2018 14:21
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

RHEL 6 (my mirror repo) pulling from RH

[rhel-6-server-rpms]
metadata_expire = 86400
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/3922910052842520258.pem
baseurl = https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/$releasever/$basearch/os
ui_repoid_vars = releasever basearch
sslverify = 1
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (RPMs)
sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/3922910052842520258-key.pem
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled = 1
sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
gpgcheck = 1

Spacewalk pulling from mirror (above)
[rhel-6-server-rpms]
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (RPMs)
baseurl = https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/rhel-6-server-rpms/
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

RHEL 7

[rhel-7-server-rpms]
metadata_expire = 86400
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/redhat.pem
baseurl = https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/$basearch/os
ui_repoid_vars = releasever basearch
sslverify = 1
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server (RPMs)
sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/redhat-key.pem
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled = 1
sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
gpgcheck = 1

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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can you just clarify/confirm what URL’s you’ve configured for the RHEL 6/7 repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test client systems.
However, I can’t seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I’ve seen some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to using “mrepo” but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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