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

Mon Feb 22 15:54:07 UTC 2010

Not sure what was wrong the first time, but after kickstarting the machine again, I was able to change the hostname and sync it with the profile sync command.  After doing some thinking though, I decided to create a master kickstart file and then clone it and set the hostnames that way as you suggested.  Thanks for your help .  

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of James Hogarth
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to Update Hostname After System Registers to Spacewalk?

On 19 February 2010 19:33, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL
<jrglenni at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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Busy at home now - will post on hwo I have it done at work on monday.

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