Hi Jeffrey Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can you just clarify/confirm what URL's you've configured for the RHEL 6/7 repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any sensitive information)?
Regards Phil From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> On Behalf Of jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58 To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers 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
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