[Spacewalk-list] Need to know about spacewalk internal architecture and why spacewalk is taking time to deploy scheduled actions

Wed Apr 3 16:10:54 UTC 2019

Actually for /etc/syscon/rhn/rhnsd: "The minimum polling interval is 60
minutes."
man rhnsd -> https://linux.die.net/man/8/rhnsd

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:58 AM James Hibberd <jhibberd at proact.co.uk> wrote:

> For Question 3 – I think this might be what you are looking for
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> On the client side you can change the check in times – Standard config is
> 240 minutes , so every 2 hours the client will check into the server.
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> On the clients change the value inside
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> /etc/syscon/rhn/rhnsd
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> To something like 15 minutes, I have my clients checking in every 40
> minutes instead of the 240 minutes
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> Hopefully that helps
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> Thanks
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> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Pittman
> *Sent:* 02 April 2019 15:45
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Cc:* Lingayya, Shanker <shanker.lingayya at accenture.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Need to know about spacewalk internal
> architecture and why spacewalk is taking time to deploy scheduled actions
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> Response in-line
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> Hi,
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> Hope you all are doing good.
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> I have recently installed spacewalk on RHEL 7.6 as server configuration
> management tool. I have few doubts as follows:
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>    1. Could you please let me know how Spacewalk pushes packages to the
>    clients?
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> a.       Does Spacewalk store the packages on the Spacewalk server and
> push these packages to Client?  The default is to setup a software
> repository  so that packages can be pulled from the spacewalk server.
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> OR
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> b.      Does Spacewalk send the command to the client servers and client
> servers will then reach out to internet and download the packages?  This
> depends on your setup, you can enable OSAD
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> perform various management operations (to include patch management,
> configuration, and etc.).
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>    1. Does Spacewalk support Primary/secondary site (Microsoft SCCM
>    Architecture) for package redistribution to clients. i.e. If I have a
>    remote Datacenter, instead of pushing packages to individual clients, can
>    we have a Spacewalk secondary site that will get the package from master
>    and redistribute the packages to clients locally?  Yes, you can
>    configure multiple spacewalk servers (i.e. you can have a single master
>    (primary) spacewalk server with several spacewalk proxies that reach out to
>    several different client environments).  A good reference resource
>    https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E92593_01/E85211/html/swk24-arch.html
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>    1. I see that scheduled activities (like reboot, patching, etc) are
>    taking a lot of time (1.30 hours delay) and crosses the scheduled window.
>    However, I see that as a workaround when I run “*rhn_check*” command
>    on the client manually, deployment status on Spacewalk changes to
>    succeeded. .  That’s because of how your initial setup is configured,
>    if you want faster response to queued jobs then look into option (1.b),
>    otherwise check taskomatic to make certain that you don’t have queued jobs
>    causing delays and setup a cron on the client to complete queued jobs (from
>    the spacewalk server).
>    https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-January/msg00173.html
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> Thanks!
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> Regards,
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> Debayan Mukherjee
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