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

[Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com]

Hi
Thanks, it does makes sense. It would be nice if you could define a
custom script for each channel that gets called when doing a
satellite-sync. That way you could easily unify the updating of all
channels in one command.

Regards 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Pradeep Kilambi
> Sent: 05 October 2008 19:07
> To: Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] And after install....
> 
> Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
> > Just for my own confirmation, does that mean that the command 
> > satellite-sync is for all intents and purposes useless in spacewalk?
> >
> > Regards
> 
> For spacewalk, you should be able to satellite sync content 
> from an exporter mount point. So say you have a channel 
> created and push a bunch of content to it.Not instead of 
> repeating the same steps on other servers, you could export 
> the existing channel from the spacewalk server suing 
> rhn-satellite-exporter,
> 
> $ rhn-satellite-exporter --dir /my-channel -c test-channel
> 
> and sync this back to another spacewalk server,
> 
> $ satellite-sync -c test-channel -m /my-channel
> 
> So the only difference is satellite sync is not talking 
> directly to RHN, instead used locally.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Thanks,
> ~ Prad
> 
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com 
> > <mailto:jonstanley at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Moises Rivera
> >     <moises.rivera.plaza at gmail.com
> >     <mailto: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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