[Spacewalk-list] Few Questions before deploying SpaceWalk to Prod

2016-04-25 Thread Zeal Vora
Hi We have set of around 200 servers and we are planning to use SpaceWalk for Patch Management. Most of the Servers are based on CentOS 6 and I had few questions before I can actually setup for Production environment. i) I was planning to Clone CentOS 6 "Updates & EPEL repo and skip Base repo. W

[Spacewalk-list] Systems Behind Proxy Not Checking In

2016-04-25 Thread Wojtak, Greg
Hello, Spacewalk 2.4 – I recently upgraded to 2.4 (recently being a relative term) and since that time, none of the systems I have behind spacewalk proxies have been checking in in a timely fashion and OSA status is unknown on all of them. If I schedule package install or script to run, it get

[Spacewalk-list] Questions about setting up a proxy server

2016-04-25 Thread Daryl Rose
I'm setting up a proxy server and I'm not sure that I understand this information from the documentation: * An upstream RHN Satellite server with an available Proxy entitlement or a Spacewalk server. * Machine where you will install Spacewalk Proxy must be registered against Spacewalk

Re: [Spacewalk-list] No Software Entitlements Found(?)

2016-04-25 Thread Jan Dobes
Default Spacewalk certificate does not contain any Software Channel Entitlements. They are only for channels subscribed from Red Hat. However you don't need any channel entitlements to be able to register clients into your CentOS channels. On 19.4.2016 22:02 Eckert, Doug wrote: Greetings, Ju

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Questions about setting up a proxy server

2016-04-25 Thread Matthew Madey
Just ensure that whatever activation key you're using to register has the provisioning entitlement attached. The Proxy can be registered normally like any other system. There will be a step in the installation to run configure_proxy.sh which enables it as a Spacewalk proxy. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Questions about setting up a proxy server

2016-04-25 Thread Daryl Rose
Matthew, Where and how to I attach then provisioning entitlement? Is this something that i have to purchase from Red Hat? I see a "Provisioning" check box in the activation key. Is that all I need, or do I have to install something else? Thank you. Daryl __

[Spacewalk-list] File deployment error

2016-04-25 Thread Konstantin Raskoshnyi
Hi guys. Trying to automatically deploy files thorough configuration, but it shows me this error Local permission not set for action type configfiles.deploy All packages are installed, also I can run remote commands. For example I want to create a file /root/test.txt - from conf this command does

Re: [Spacewalk-list] File deployment error

2016-04-25 Thread Robert Paschedag
rhn-action-control --enable-all Am 25.04.2016 21:05 schrieb Konstantin Raskoshnyi : > > Hi guys. > Trying to automatically deploy files thorough configuration, but it shows me > this error > Local permission not set for action type configfiles.deploy > > All packages are installed, also I can run

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Questions about setting up a proxy server

2016-04-25 Thread Matthew Madey
Yep, just make sure that Provisioning box is checked in your Activation key. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Daryl Rose wrote: > Matthew, > > > Where and how to I attach then provisioning entitlement? Is this > something that i have to purchase from Red Hat? > > > I see a "Provisioning" check

Re: [Spacewalk-list] All packages not listed under " Install " tab in systems

2016-04-25 Thread Konstantin Raskoshnyi
Sorry didn't get your answer. What do you see if you run the command yum repolist on your servers? Thanks On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Zeal Vora wrote: > Yes, I've subscribed to all 3 channels. > > When I do yum install package-name ( from 3rd repo ) , it works however > from the SpaceWalk

[Spacewalk-list] Auto config deployment

2016-04-25 Thread Konstantin Raskoshnyi
I set up config deployment, added files, subscribed keys for my config channels. After a fresh kickstart I see that systems are subscribed to config channel, but there's no updates on the file system, If I make deployment manually - all works. Also there's no job after a kickstart to deploy centra

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Few Questions before deploying SpaceWalk to Prod

2016-04-25 Thread Sean Johnson
I was planning to Clone CentOS 6 "Updates & EPEL repo and skip Base repo. Will those 2 be good enough for basic system packages ? You need the Base channel. The Updates channel only has updates. So, any package that hasn't been updated will expect to be pulled from the Base channel instead of

[Spacewalk-list] Pushing updates to multiple machines at a time

2016-04-25 Thread Zeal Vora
Hi I intend to push updates to multiple machines at a time. I've created Groups called Prod and QA and added servers to each of them. However within the Groups, I don't see any box to push the updates to the entire group. Any help will be appreciated on how to do it correctly. Cheers! Zeal _