[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.3 monitoring scout status

2011-02-15 Thread Muhammad Atif
Hi, We have just installed spacewalk 1.3 on Centos 5.5. The system so far seems to be working fine however on the monitoring side we have a little confusion. We are able to push the probes on to the desired clients and can monitor them, but the Spacewalk Monitoring Scout gives the status of R

[Spacewalk-list] Fixed my osad task pick up issue

2011-02-15 Thread Tarun Reddy
Been fighting this for a long time and thought I'd share just in case others who have been seeing this would like to try. This bug (not filed by me) has a small patch at the end that turns off the roster functionality of the jabber server. Once I did that, I followed the following steps and have b

Re: [Spacewalk-list] new client subscribe to channels via cli?

2011-02-15 Thread jason
ok, fixed my issue.. actually the register itself should bring down the subscribed channels assuming my activation key was set up right.. I found that my activation key didnt correcly specify my base channel.. after fixing that and re-registering the system, everything works as expected. Jason

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Issue with duplicate pkg names on differentchannels

2011-02-15 Thread Young, Ken (FMRCO)
As a follow-up it appears that there is something wrong with package duplication within the same OU. I created a new OU with a new channel and I was able to push a rpm from one of my other OU's channel and the push worked. I tried to push the same package to a different channel but within the same

[Spacewalk-list] new client subscribe to channels via cli?

2011-02-15 Thread jason
[root@rwebmon ~]# rhnreg_ks --force --serverUrl=http://redhouse.mydomain.com/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-0f11d5ablablablablablabla This system is not subscribed to any channels. RHN channel support will be disabled. [root@rwebmon ~]# ive searched but cant seem to find how to subscribe to channels

Re: [Spacewalk-list] up2date file not being updated

2011-02-15 Thread Jan Pazdziora
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Hagberg, Keith wrote: > Running spacewalk 1.2 > > When I provision a rhel 4 server of spacewalk, when the server is registered > to spacewalk, the serverURL is properly updated but the noSSLserverURL is > not, it still points at http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Excluding Packages in a Channel?

2011-02-15 Thread r . rigby
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, r.ri...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: hi greg, as i understand it, the file you need to look at (on the clients) is: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf in here, you can put your per channel customisations, for that client, in the same way

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Excluding Packages in a Channel?

2011-02-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, r.ri...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: hi greg, as i understand it, the file you need to look at (on the clients) is: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf in here, you can put your per channel customisations, for that client, in the same way as you would for a yum repository, e.g.:

[Spacewalk-list] up2date file not being updated

2011-02-15 Thread Hagberg, Keith
Running spacewalk 1.2 When I provision a rhel 4 server of spacewalk, when the server is registered to spacewalk, the serverURL is properly updated but the noSSLserverURL is not, it still points at http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC Keith ___ Spacewal

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Excluding Packages in a Channel?

2011-02-15 Thread AJ Hettema
hi Greg, you could opt for removing the custom channel for these machines specifically. Although these may be undesireable, it is quatenteed this way. However, if that's not an option, you can also lock these systems so there aren't any actions possible from the satellite on them, or you could go

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Excluding Packages in a Channel?

2011-02-15 Thread r . rigby
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Wojtak, Greg wrote: Is there a way to exclude certain packages in a channel from being installed/updated unless overridden? For example, I built a php-5.3.5 set of packages and I pushed them into a custom channel. All of my systems are currently subscribed to this channe

[Spacewalk-list] Excluding Packages in a Channel?

2011-02-15 Thread Wojtak, Greg
Is there a way to exclude certain packages in a channel from being installed/updated unless overridden? For example, I built a php-5.3.5 set of packages and I pushed them into a custom channel. All of my systems are currently subscribed to this channel, but there are couple systems where it wo