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

[Irwin, Jeffrey]

​HTH,

That sounds better than my solution by far.  Well, same solution but more streamlined.  So you do a reposync using a script, then use rhnpush to push to satellite?  Is that right?


Jeff


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Hi Phil,

I use Spacewalk to centrally manage multiple distributions and different major releases within each distribution, as you are seeking to accomplish.  Understanding that the Linux server running Spacewalk would not have access to all of the different proprietary subscriptions, this was achieved by setting up repository download servers for each distribution/release that required a separate subscription.  Updates are downloaded by a scripted cron job on each local repo server and pushed to the central Spacewalk server using rhnpush.

To script update downloads on a local repo server, the reposync command can be used for RHEL, the smt-mirror command can be used for SUSE, etc.  With this method, you do not need to worry about URLs.  You can download repositories by their ID/name.

HTH.

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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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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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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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