[Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to Update Hostname After System Registers to Spacewalk?

[Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL]

Hmm.. something else must be going wrong then.  I had thought that the rhn-profile-sync command might be what I was looking for but it didn't seem to do anything.  I'll have to poke around and see if I can figure out what's going wrong with that then.

Maybe I'm missing something as I am new to the entire kickstart business, but the only way I know to do that is to create an individual kickstart file for each machine with the proper host name set.  Rather than do that that, I prefer using 1 kickstart profile and then running a script on first boot to finalize the machine.  

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of James Hogarth
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:29 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to Update Hostname After System Registers to Spacewalk?

On 19 February 2010 19:26, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 February 2010 19:23, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 February 2010 18:14, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL
>> <jrglenni at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello All-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've been playing around with kickstarts in spacewalk 7 and have gotten
>>> things to the point where I can completely configure a base system to my
>>> requirements and boot that system into a graphical interface without my
>>> interaction.  The last thing I would like to do is change the system name.
>>> I can't seem to find any way to update a system's host name after it has
>>> registered to spacewalk, is there such an option?  Ideally I'd like to
>>> script this client side so I could execute a script on the machine one last
>>> time before it is good to go.    Worst case scenario, would it be possible
>>> to unregister the client, change its hostname, then re-register it with its
>>> new hostname, all form the client side?
>>>
>>
>> For clarity - as it can get confusing - are you talking about the
>> hostname or the displayed named in the system list?
>>
>> James
>>
>
> If you mean hostname registered in spacewalk then just change it on
> the client and do a rhn-profile-sync ..
>
> If you mean the displayed name take a look at the XML-RPC API - there
> are some great docs on it.
>
> Specifically you want:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/documentation/api/0.8/handlers/SystemHandler.html#setDetails
>
> That will let you set the displayed name in the systems list.
>
> James
>

Apologies for the reply to myself *again* but why change the name
after the system has built? You could have it correct from the
beginning during the kickstart and then not have to worry about it....
Oh and if you change it sfter the system is built remember to amend
/etc/hosts with the new name...

James

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