Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSA Status via Proxy

2014-11-18 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Yea that's normal.It means that its picked up jobs through OSAD but has not been pinged since the last time its been declared offline.This is the nature of OSAD its design is that it doesn't chat (IRC) with a host unless there is something it needs the host to do.Hat said it maybe worth while to wr

[Spacewalk-list] Fwd: Virus Scanning during patching of systems

2014-11-18 Thread Glen Collins
Hi Avi, thanks for the info. I got it working like I pretty much want. For everyone else that might be interested in this here is what I came up with In: /usr/lib/yum-plugins/mcafee.py -- from yum.plugins import PluginYumExit, TYPE_CORE, TYPE_INTER

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk performance tuning for deployments with 1000+ hosts

2014-11-18 Thread Krzysztof Pawłowski
I observed that during high db load rhn-search on spacewalk server is very busy. Is there configuration options to increase number of db connections used by this daemon to increase parallelism ? My db backend is pgsql and with only single connection all sql queries are bound to single cpu core. 2

[Spacewalk-list] OSA Status via Proxy

2014-11-18 Thread Glen Collins
Hello all. I'm wondering if there is a way to force an OSA ping from the command line. Ever since I put a proxy in, the system status is not displayed. Says, online but unknown. I checked all the usual things in osa-dispatcher logs, jabber, osad and such and there are no errors that I can see. I'm

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Low bandwidth locations

2014-11-18 Thread Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro
Matthew, I believe be interesting know better your environment, btw, you can work with proxy (between your company and filial/client) or really use Spacewalk Proxy. With this you will probably work better, you have to check the necessity according the quantity of clients or the problem caused by l

[Spacewalk-list] AUTO: Russell Duma is out of the office (returning 20/11/2014)

2014-11-18 Thread Russell Duma
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[Spacewalk-list] Low bandwidth locations

2014-11-18 Thread Matthew Madey
All, I've run into a situation where my total metadata for channels has grown quite large (about 200MB). I've done all I can as far as channel\package management to reduce the size of the metadata.. We have a number of locations where the bandwidth to the clients is extremely small.. So downloadin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] How to properly setup Solaris Channels

2014-11-18 Thread Daryl Rose
Hello everyone. I'm finally able to reply to this posting. Here is what I have discovered. Nested channels, at least for Solaris, does not work. However, I now realize that I SW does not handle Solaris packages, so it really doesn't matter if I have a channel for packages, only patches. A Sola

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxy

2014-11-18 Thread Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro
Hello Slava, good morning In theory you don't need do something about it, when you register a new machine, you will use a activation key, where in the name you can see the org, for example: AK Names 1-centosbase6.5 - Base in Org 1 2-centosbase6.5 - Base in Org 2 So if you use 1-centosbase6.5, wi