Hi,
> 1. Does anyone currently use Spacewalk to manage SLES or RHEL servers in > their environment. Have you encountered any issues where it invalidated your > support? On the technical side it works fine. We had only one support case so far and using spacewalk was no issue or wasn't even looked at. > > 2. According to SuSE/Novell Support they mentioned to me that Spacewalk is > not a supported tool to download & manage packages, so essentially it would > invalidate the support. This would be true even if i used SMT to download the > package and push them into Spacewalk. On the other hand they would try to > still provide support, but if in the case that we install 3rd party RPM's > that is the cause of issue, they would not be able to support the system. > Does anyone know what specific packages & dependencies would be installed or > modified? We use the spacewalk-client rpms from suse openbuild service (OBS), to have the same version as the spacewalk server: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:spacewalk No additional dependencies are needed. > > 3. I only see steps to register OpenSuSE clients and not SLES on this page > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClientsAre there steps for > SLES? They are the same steps. But you have to use the appropriate repo from OBS: SLES11.3 or SLES12.0. Or you try the SLES-included packages. See below. > > 4. Is there a way to register a SLES server to Spacewalk without getting > packages from openSuSE? > Yes, it is. Suse-Manager is based on spacewalk, so in SLES there are also client-packages included, but they have different names and older versions. E.g. in SLES11.3 you get version 1.7. spacewalk-check (rhn_check) spacewalk-client-setup (rhnreg_ks, spacewalk-channel) spacewalk-client-tools (up2date) spacewalksd (rhnsd) zypp-plugin-spacewalk So most of the time instead of rhn Suse uses spacewalk in package names. I don't know if 1.7 client tools still work with an 2.3 spacewalk-server (last time I tested it with spacewalk-2.1), but I guess it will work. Regards, Bernhard
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