Hi Waldirio Thanks for your response and I’ll take a look at those links. I didn’t think there would be any problem patching RHEL servers with Satellite, as that was exactly what it was designed to do, but have you had any success with using the same system to patch Oracle 6/7 systems as well – as I’m trying to establish a single centralised system capable of doing both? I’m thinking that it probably can but Red Hat just wouldn’t support that element?
Regards Phil From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> On Behalf Of waldi...@gmail.com Sent: 27 November 2018 01:18 To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers Hello Phil Yeap, this is the diff between the Product (Red Hat Satellite) and Upstream (Spacewalk), basically, on Satellite everything will be automatically and will sync packages and erratas. When using SW you have to do this work manually *implementing some way to download/push to your SW server*. There are diff ways to do this implementation, and I really recommend you to take a look in the list archives [1]. I wrote this book [2] with all SW workflow, unfortunately, I didn't add a way to sync Red Hat repos. Hope this helps. ______________ Best Waldirio Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br<http://www.waldirio.com.br> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio [1]. https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/ [2]. https://www.amazon.com/Spacewalk-Satellite-Project-solution-management-ebook/dp/B071DDQ4W2 On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:58 AM Irwin, Jeffrey <jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com<mailto:jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com>> wrote: I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local repo mirror. I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk. That way i have the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered. From there, I set up the channels and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my local repo server. I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk. ________________________________ From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk<mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk> <p.cook...@bham.ac.uk<mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers Good afternoon I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test client systems. However, I can’t seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I’ve seen some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to using “mrepo” but the latter just seems over complicated really. Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers? In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning capabilities too. Regards Phil _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
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