[Spacewalk-list] Best Practice for adding a child Channel?

[William Hongach]

Hello,

Add all of the target systems to the SSM as Robert suggested, then run the following from the server:

spacecmd system_addchildchannels ssm <channel-label>

This should subscribe all of the systems currently in the SSM to the child channel that you specify by its label.  If you do not have the “spacecmd” CLI already installed on your system, you should be able to grab it from the Spacewalk repo for your distribution.  Hope this helps.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Guy Matz
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 4:43 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Best Practice for adding a child Channel?

Hey!  Thanks for the reply!  I'm asking about the scenario in which a system is already registered and a new child channel is added . . .

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 4:36 PM William Hongach <William.Hongach at marist.edu<mailto:William.Hongach at marist.edu>> wrote:
Hello,

If the child channel is already associated with the activation key at the time of client registration, the client should subscribe to the base and child channels simultaneously if things are working correctly.  If you want to retroactively associate previously registered clients with a newly added child channel, I think you may have to script something to process this.  For example, you can make use of “spacecmd system_addchildchannels” to associate the system or system groups with the child channel.

I’m not sure if “Reactivation” within the GUI using the generated key would also work, but that is also a possibility to investigate.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>> On Behalf Of Guy Matz
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 4:21 PM
To: Spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:Spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Best Practice for adding a child Channel?

Hi!  Is there a best way to add child channels?  I've added a channel, and made it a child channel in the "Activation Keys" section of the UI, but the channel does not show up on the client unless I add the child channel to the system.  Is there a better way?  Am I missing something?

Thanks a lot,
Guy
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