[Spacewalk-list] questions about spacecmd and rhnreg_ks

[Eckert, Doug]

For #1, you can create separate activation key(s) that will place the
client in whatever group(s) and assign specific base/child channels, then
use --activationkey "<your-key-name>" with rhnreg_ks as appropriate for
each client.





On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 9:55 AM Ananta Chakravartula <
ananta.c at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I created groups dev/stage/prod and assigned nodes to those groups
> depending on our chef client environment.
>
> My questions
>
> 1) whenever I run `rhnreg_ks` on clients, i want to run a script on the
> server to add the node to a certain group and  set basechannel depending on
> the environment. for example I want all the prod nodes to be set to base
> channel prod-xxx. I wrote some code for that, but how can i trigger it on
> rhnreg_ks, is it possible?
>
> 2) I don't see any option in here
> <https://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.9/handlers/ServerGroupHandler.html%20.>
> to set all the nodes in a group to certain base channel.It will be nice to
> add that , is there any space where I can create a PR or suggest?
> This
> <https://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.9/handlers/SystemHandler.html#setBaseChannel>
> takes only systemid, it will be nice if it can take groupname or groupid
>
> 3) How can i set spacecmd not to cache in config? I run in to many issues
> with spacecmd not doing what it is supposed to be even after confirming the
> changes in stdout. Some gets cleared vi clear_caches. I also can't
> reproduce the issues, so i can't open bug report. It will be nice and handy
> if there is any config option not to do caching.
>
> cheers,
> ac
>
>
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