Edward, The katello-agent is actually running as 'goferd' on the system. When you install this service gets started which triggers initial uploads for package profiles and enabled repositories. Subsequent actions on the host will re-trigger these events (e.g. yum update will re-trigger package upload) to keep the data up to date in Katello and applicability current.
Eric On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Edward Clay <edward.c...@uk2group.com> wrote: > Thanks Eric for the quick response. is there some service that runs on the > system or is it called by something? Just trying to figure out how this > works without enabling the puppet service, which doesn't seem to be related. > > On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 20:08 -0400, Eric D Helms wrote: > > The service you are looking for is when you installed katello-agent. This > package includes utilities that upload the hosts package profile and > enabled repositories to Katello which allow errata to be calculated. > > Eric > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Edward Clay <edward.c...@uk2group.com> > wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what software/agent/code is used to to inform > katello/foreman that a system is either up to date or needs patches (aka > erratas that apply to host) and what executes it? From what I've come up > with thus far, I perform the following task on a host and then everything > is good. But this is because puppet agent does a puppet run every 35'is > minutes. At least that's what my understanding is. > > 1. So first I create a host in foreman with the specifics/details needed > to define a specific host. > > 2. On a existing system I run these task. Rough draft of the steps I > follow to set up an existing host. > > -- install subscription manager > wget https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dgoodwin/subscription- > manager/repo/epel-6/dgoodwin-subscription-manager-epel-6.repo -O > /etc/yum.repos.d/dgoodwin-subscription-manager-epel-6.repo > -- install katello client > yum install -y http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/3.2/ > client/el6/x86_64/katello-client-repos-latest.rpm > yum -y install katello-agent > wget --no-check-certificate https://foreman.domain.com/pub > /katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm > rpm -ihv ./katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm > subscription-manager register --org="myOrg" --activationkey="COS6" > > -- Install puppet > rpm -ihv https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-6.noarch.rpm > yum -y install puppet > add the following two lines just under [main] > server = foreman.domain.com > environment = production > -- puppet agent -t > -- service puppet start > -- chkconfig puppet on > > So after doing these steps i'm able to login to foreman and see weather or > not a system has outstanding erratas that need to be applied and I can > apply them. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- > > Edward Clay > Systems Adminstrator > UK2 Group -- US Operations > Phone: 1-800-222-2165 <(800)%20222-2165> > E-Mail: edward.c...@uk2group.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Eric D. Helms Red Hat Engineering -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
