[Spacewalk-list] Is it possible?

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Troy Banther wrote:

> At work, one of the departments would like to build a Beowulf cluster.
> Since I am the Linux person on campus they requested my services. Not
> that I don't already have other projects. lol.
>
> Red hat is our "primary" Linux. I also just completed building a
> Spacewalk server. So, being as my mind works, I thought it might be
> interesting to combine the two systems.
>
> Since there are Red hat engineers on the list with much better access
> to Red hat documents and practice I thought I would ask. I've always
> found that asking about saves hours of wading through useless pages on
> the Internet.
>
> I am thinking it would be fantastic to manage the cluster with
> Spacewalk and SSH since it will eventually move away from the data
> center to the basement of the department requesting it.

Please don't read my comments as being dismissive, I was being serious and
wasn't trying to have a dig.

I've just started out with spacewalk, but I do manage a number of small
beowulfs.  I genuinely wanted to know what you thought was special about your
cluster that would make it hard (or even different) to manage.

I've installed clusters in entirely non-standard ways (diskless anyone?), but
I can see it working perfectly well with spacewalk.

jh

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