[Spacewalk-list] register systems

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Mike (or anyone):

   Is there any chance that my problem of not being able to subscribe my test system to a channel has to do with my creating only one activation key?

      mark

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:54:45 -0800
>From: Mike McCune <mmccune at redhat.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] register systems  
>To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>
>m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:34:11 -0800
>>> From: Mike McCune <mmccune at redhat.com>  
>>>
>>> Steve Vargo wrote:
>>>> So does that mean that this link is just a link to the documentation 
>>>> (which is not included with spacewalk)
>>>>
>>>> https://spacewalk.company.com/rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp
>>>>
>>>> and doesn't actually give you the ability to register client via the web 
>>>> gui?
>>> Correct.  The only way in Spacewalk (or RHN Satellite) to register a 
>>> client is through the use of rhn-register or rhnreg_ks from the client's 
>>> CLI.  That page basically tells you this fact.
>> 
>> Dunno. I, personally, would never have released it that way - I'd have dynamically not shown anything that was not applicable to the version.
>> 
>
>patches happily accepted :)
>
>> However, I'm still stuck where I was, which is that I have a registered system, but no way to subscribe it to a channel. I have two channels, with children, but when I got to systems->click on my system->change subscriptions, and it says it will give me a list of channels, the list contains exactly one entry: (none, disable service).
>> 
>> What do I have to do to get the system subscribed, and why is this list not filled in?
>
>Ok, what arch is the system you have registered and what is the arch of 
>the channel you want to subscribe it too. The above situation often 
>occurs if your channel is i386 and your system is an x86_64 based system 
>or the other way around.
>
>Mike
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