[Spacewalk-list] Duplicates and Reactivation

[Tom Brown]

>
> I want to reduce the manual work to do when reinstalling a system and
> therefore avoid duplicates in my spacewalk installation.
>
> The only way to do that is to generate a reactivation key for each
> system. As far as I found out this can only be done by using the web
> interface manually.
>
> Is there an (undocumented) way to generate such keys automatically for
> example within a script either on the spacewalk server or a client?
>
> An imaginable workaround would be to delete the duplicates
> automatically. A proposal for identifying such systems can be found in
> the spacewalk wiki
> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/DuplicateProfiles). Were some
> of these features integrated or can a list of existing hosts (with
> system-id) be exported and via a script-able interface deleted?
>
> My last and most universal question: how do you handle duplicates in
> your installations?
>
>   

this is exactly the thing i am currently looking at - how can a box be 
rebuilt without having to go into the gui and remove it first, otherwise 
you end up with a dupe. We rebuild without the use of the gui so this 
behavior just makes this harder to manage.

if i find anything i'll let you know