[Spacewalk-list] best way to use spacewalk?

2014-10-29 Thread Elizabeth Jones
I'm a complete newbie to spacewalk and I'm trying to figure out whether I can actually use it or not. We have rhel licenses for all our linux servers and currently we patch them directly from the redhat website. What I would like to do, if possible, is use spacewalk to manage these servers - f

[Spacewalk-list] using a remote pulp repo

2016-03-20 Thread Elizabeth Jones
Hi - we have a working pulp repository that we currently have clients connected to, but I would like to see if I can setup spacewalk on a different server to manage other clients without setting up a separate, essentially identical repository.  Is there any way that I can direct my spacewalk cha

[Spacewalk-list] confused about channels and repositories

2016-03-24 Thread Elizabeth Jones
I am a little confused about channels and repositories.  I have centos and oracle servers so i need two different base channels.  However, we also have an epel repository that all servers need to access.  I tried creating a new channel that could contain packages from both the centos repo and th

[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk syncs sometimes don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Elizabeth Jones
I am having some trouble getting my syncs to work.  The urls that I'm connecting to are good, but spacewalk often returns this: Sync started: Mon Mar 28 08:44:15 2016 ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'my-rhel6', '--type', 'yum'] Repo URL: https://lnxpulp01.mycompany.com/pulp/repos/rhe

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk syncs sometimes don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Elizabeth Jones
nel it says that I have no rpms under my epel child, so do I need to sync this?  This is failing. From: Robert Paschedag To: Elizabeth Jones Cc: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk syncs sometimes don't work D

[Spacewalk-list] registering the kids

2016-04-22 Thread Elizabeth Jones
I have my spacewalk channels configured so that I have a main channel with nothing in it, then a bunch of child channels beneath the main channel with all of my actual repos.  When I build a new server I am registering with an activation key that I configured against the main channel. But then I

[Spacewalk-list] building a spacewalk slave server

2017-02-15 Thread Elizabeth Jones
Quick question - can I clone an existing spacewalk server and turn it into a slave or would it be better to build the new server from scratch/do all the spacewalk configuration from scratch? I would want to use the original server as the master. thanks,EJ_

[Spacewalk-list] using spacewalk when your connection is slow

2017-02-24 Thread Elizabeth Jones
We have some servers in a site where the connection rate is extremely slow, trying to connect to our Spacewalk server for patching.  The connection keeps timing out with stuff like "operation too low. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 60 seconds".  Are there any tricks that any of you kn

[Spacewalk-list] registering servers with spacewalk

2017-04-05 Thread Elizabeth Jones
I'm trying to set up a system where I can use remote command scripts from spacewalk to update registration of my servers.  For instance, I have all my servers registered to a set of channels that are frozen from october 2016.  I want to update them all to use a set of channels frozen from March

Re: [Spacewalk-list] registering servers with spacewalk

2017-04-06 Thread Elizabeth Jones
-y to not prompt you) Thanks and good luck From:       Elizabeth Jones To:       "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" Date:       04/05/2017 09:37 AM Subject:       [Spacewalk-list]registering servers with spacewalk Sent by:       spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com This email originated from

[Spacewalk-list] telling Spacewalk a server doesn't need specific packages

2017-04-11 Thread Elizabeth Jones
We have some servers that have packages that can't be updated due to app issues.  Spacewalk has these servers flagged as red although they are patched - we have the excluded RPMs listed in /etc/yum.conf on the servers, so the servers themselves know they don't need those packages.  Is there any

[Spacewalk-list] configuration file question

2017-09-26 Thread Elizabeth Jones
I started using configuration files from my spacewalk server and it is awesome.  Got a question though -  I have a channel called channel1 and I have 2 files in it that are syncing out to 50 servers.  If I add a new file to this channel but only want it to go to a subset of servers, will this wo