[Spacewalk-list] Duplicates and Reactivation

Colin Coe colin.coe at gmail.com
Mon May 10 13:51:54 UTC 2010


I call custom API scripts in the %post script to deal with this.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>
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