[Spacewalk-list] Are there any docs forconfiguring the client for a push?

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Mike,

>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:58:22 -0500
>From: "Michael ORourke" <mrorourke at earthlink.net>  
>From Mairin
>From: <m.roth2006 at rcn.com>
>To: <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:43 PM
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>>>> There must be *something* that I need to do to make the
>>>> profile, so I can set up a push.
>>>
>>>By setting up a push, do you mean configuring the client for
>>>OSAD?
>>>
>>>https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OSADSetup
>>
>> What is OSAD? I saw setup instructions for it, but nothing that told me in 
>> the client setup docs what it was, or why it was needed, at least in the 
>> client setup docs, which end with the registration. Is this a daemon that 
>> needs to run on the client? Is it needed on the server, as well?
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>> I'd have to rerun it. First, though, could you tell me, or point me to a 
>> doc, that tells me about OSAD, other than just how to set it up?
>
>You definetly want OSAD running, on both the client and the server.  Because 
>the rhnsd daemon defaults to 'checking in' every 240 minutes.  So if you 
>schedule a push, reboot, or a remote command on the client from the 
>spacewalk server, it may take up to 4 hours before it executes.  What OSAD 
>does is check with the server to see if there are any pending operations 
>scheduled for it, if so then it executes /usr/sbin/rhn_check  (same thing 
>that the rhnsd daemon does when it wakes up).

You're confusing me: on the server, do I want the osad-dispatcher, or *both* the osad-dispatcher and osad?

 mark