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

[Guy Matz]

Thanks.  Would be nice if SSM could be managed from spacecmd . . .

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 5:00 PM William Hongach <William.Hongach at marist.edu>
wrote:

> Hello,
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> Add all of the target systems to the SSM as Robert suggested, then run the
> following from the server:
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> spacecmd system_addchildchannels ssm <channel-label>
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> 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.
>
>
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> *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?
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> 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 . . .
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 4:36 PM William Hongach <
> William.Hongach at marist.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> I’m not sure if “Reactivation” within the GUI using the generated key
> would also work, but that is also a possibility to investigate.
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> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <
> 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
> *Subject:* [Spacewalk-list] Best Practice for adding a child Channel?
>
>
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> 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?
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> Thanks a lot,
>
> Guy
>
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