[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Monitoring Scout

[Marcus Moeller]

Hi.

>>> On 05/06/2010 08:14 PM, Cory mckee wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to remove a Spacewalk monitoring scout. When I did the
>>>> upgrade the second one appeared
>>>
>>> Yes and no.
>>>
>>> Not easy and using normal tools.
>>>
>>> Yes. Using sqlplus and direct access to DB.
>>>
>>> But first of all... There should not appear second scout after
>>> upgrade. Can we spent some time investigating why it happened? Did you
>>> made something unusual during upgrade? Or you have two scouts even
>>> before upgrade? Or something else?
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> Excuse me.
>> Is there a way to have more than one scout?
>> If yes, how can I create new scouts?
>> Thanks
>>
>
> The only way to add additional scouts is by installing Spacewalk
> Proxies.  It is actually quite common to move all the active probes to
> Proxies running the scouts, instead of overloading the Spacewalk server
> that is busy enough with packages, errata, updates, etc. going on.

if so, it should be possible to define a default Scout, because
otherwise users might still leave the selection on 'default' (which is
afair the Spacewalk server), while creating probes or Scout Config
Push (still wonder why it's still necessary to manually push configs
to the scout, but anyway).

Best Regards
Marcus