[Spacewalk-list] rhn_check

[Matthew Davis]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> When osa-dispatcher detects a job due that has been scheduled it will
> look up the name (not system name but an auto generated one) in the
> database and send a message to that 'user' on the jabber session that
> an update is pending. When the jabber client (osad) gets this message
> it triggers rhn_check on that system which then checks in with the
> registered spacewalk server to get any updates due and process them.

This is correct.  Really the only function of osad/jabber is to
trigger the registered client to perform rhn_check.