[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 clients not checking in

Thu Jul 19 16:03:08 UTC 2018

I’ve done that a few times now and to no avail. What’s weird is restarting rhnsd on the client makes it check in fine. Also restarting the actual spacewalk server makes the agents with issues check in.

That being said, OSAD is working fine as even when an agent hasn’t checked in for over a day it can still do actions on those hosts through spacewalk and they are picked up immediately.

So not 100% sure why that is but I’ve tried doing what you mentioned, tried messing with rhnsd on the client side to adjust the check time and nadda.

Regards,

Nicholas Penner
Technical Specialist
Manitoba Health
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When you say you upgraded some clients, assuming you’re using osad, it may be that you need to do some refreshing.  I’d check  /var/lib/jabberd/db/sqlite.db on your Spacewalk server to make sure it’s not a zero-length file.  Then, I’d stop Spacewalk services, delete the sqlite database (rm -rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/*), restart Spacewalk services, then check the sqlite.db again.  On the clients, you should stop osad, remove /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf, then start osad.

Hth.

Dimitri

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I get the same as what Jason said. For us it’s not all hosts, only some.

The hosts that are still running 2.7 client work fine as well.

Regards,

Nicholas Penner
Technical Specialist
Manitoba Health
3041-300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, MB, R3B 3M9
204-788-6498
nicholas.penner at gov.mb.ca<mailto:curtis.brown at gov.mb.ca>

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Robert,

Thanks for the input, but I’ve already looked at rhnsd, and the interval variable is set.  I’ve even tried adjusting it, but rhn_check isn’t even starting, so it makes no difference.

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Hi Jason,

The check-in interval is controlled by the INTERVAL variable in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd.  By default, I believe it is set to INTERVAL=240 (4 hrs).  Have you checked this value on the affected clients to determine if it is behaving as configured?

I believe rhnsd will -not- check in at reboot, unless you configure it to do so (rhn_check in crontab, etc.).  It will check in at rhnsd_start_time + interval.  This is the behavior I have observed with 2.8.

Hope this helps.

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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 clients not checking in

Hi All,

I just upgraded to 2.8 (server and some clients) and now the clients that have been upgraded aren’t checking in anymore.  I’ve tried restarting the rhnsd service, even rebooted the system, and still nothing.  I’ve looked at /var/log/up2date, and there’s no activity since the time rhnsd was last started.  It looks like rhn_check just isn’t getting run.  I ran it manually and the system checked in and picked up the chain I had waiting for it.

Is anyone familiar with this enough to provide a solution, or at least know enough to help me get started troubleshooting this?

Thank you,
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