[Spacewalk-list] And after install....

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Just for my own confirmation, does that mean that the command satellite-sync
is for all intents and purposes useless in spacewalk?
Regards

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Moises Rivera
> <moises.rivera.plaza at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >  I have a customer that need the installation of the RHN Satellite. I try
> > with SpaceWalk, because, I dont have any experience with this product.
>
> The installation procedures for RHN Satellite and Spacewalk are a
> little bit different. In Satellite, you download the ISO (either with
> the embedded database or external database), and there is an installer
> script that takes care of everything for you, from installing the
> packages, setting up the database, generating the CA, etc.  The
> installation of Spacewalk is significantly more manual (though still
> very doable)
>
> >  After a lot ot problems with the PGP keys, packages installations and
> more,
> > finally I installed spacewalk (yuju!!!!). But.... and now? :) Today I can
> > connect to the spacewalk - internal - web, but I dont know the next steps
> in
> > the configuration.
>
> Again, Spacewalk and Satellite differ significantly here. With
> Spacewalk, you're fully responsible for creating all of your custom
> content, pushing content into channels, etc. With Satellite, if you're
> running a connected Satellite, you simply type 'satellite-sync
> --list-channels' and it will connect to RHN and show you the channels
> that you are entitled to. Then you type 'satellite-sync -c <channel
> labels>' and it will start pulling down all of that content from RHN
> hosted.
>
> >  I dont know if I must create a Channel, if I nedd a certificate - in the
> > FAQ say that spacewalk use a certificate, but it say that spacewalk not
> use
> > it -.....
>
> Yes, in Spacewalk you need to create channels. In Satellite, the
> channel creation of Red Hat channels will be taken care of by the
> commands that I listed above, however, you will still need to create
> whatever custom channels you require and push content to them using
> rhnpush.
>
> As for the certificate, both use an entitlement certificate, the
> difference is where you get it.  For Satellite, you'll have to get one
> from Red Hat customer service, it specifies what channel entitlements
> you have and how many, as well as any add-on entitlements that you may
> have purchased (provisioning, monitoring). A cert comes by default in
> Spacewalk, containing 20,000 entitlements for everything (and
> instructions on how to generate one for more if you need).
>
> I hope that helped.
>
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Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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