[Spacewalk-list] Queueing a hardware refresh

[Robert Paschedag]

You could also run an "rhn-profile-sync" on the clients (maybe as daily cronjob).

But this script might fail, if you have old-style ifconfig "aliases" (e.g. eth0:0) interfaces.

Robert


> Gesendet: Freitag, 15. März 2019 um 15:01 Uhr
> Von: "William Hongach" <William.Hongach at marist.edu>
> An: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> Betreff: [Spacewalk-list] Queueing a hardware refresh
>
> Good Morning All,
> 
> I noticed something interesting in the web gui of our Spacewalk 2.8 server.  I'm actually surprised that I did not notice it sooner.  If I change the IP address of a client, this change is not reflected in Systems > Details > Overview > System Info.  This same outdated information for network interfaces is also reflected on the Hardware > Networking tab as well.  
> 
> Our clients check in hourly but this information is not getting updated on the server.  For some reason I assumed it would, but this is not the case because the check in is only looking for scheduled tasks.  I discovered that I needed to visit the Hardware tab and click "Schedule Hardware Refresh" to queue a push of this information from the client.
> 
> This can also be accomplished on the command line using "spacecmd system_schedulehardwarerefresh" so I leave this here as a tip for our newer users after stumbling upon the issue myself.  Have a good day.
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