[Spacewalk-list] exporting configuration channel data

[wayne smith]

Thanks all. I think we will take the API route similar to what Josh
suggested.

Thanks,

Wayman

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:37 AM, <Josh.Mullis at cox.com> wrote:

> Here's a script I have that grabs the raw config file contents...
> (You may want to remove the "org" stuff if you only have 1 org)
>
> I also have that grabs the custom info for a given system.
> Let me know if you would like that one as well.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use Frontier::Client;
>
> my $orgname = $ARGV[0];
> if (!$orgname)
> {
>   print "Command Syntax:  spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl <org_name>
> <config_chan> <file_path>\n";
>   exit;
> }
>
> my $cfgchan = $ARGV[1];
> if (!$cfgchan)
> {
>   print "Command Syntax:  spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl $orgname <config_chan>
> <file_path>\n";
>   exit;
> }
>
> my $file = $ARGV[2];
> if (!$file)
> {
>   print "Command Syntax:  spacewalk-get-cfg-file.pl $orgname $cfgchan
> <file_path>\n";
>   exit;
> }
>
>
> my $HOST = 'localhost';
> my $user = "$orgname-apiuser";
> my $pass = 'YOUR_PASS';
>
> my $client = new Frontier::Client(url => "http://$HOST/rpc/api");
> my $session = $client->call('auth.login',$user, $pass);
>
>
> @files = ( "$file" );
>
> my $filedetails = $client->call('configchannel.lookupFileInfo', $session,
> $cfgchan, \@files);
> foreach my $filedetail (@$filedetails) {
>   print $filedetail->{'contents'}."\n";
> }
>
>
>
> $client->call('auth.logout', $session);
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Colin Coe [colin.coe at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:03 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] exporting configuration channel data
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:59:43PM -0500, wayne smith wrote:
> >> Hello Spacewalk-list,
> >>
> >> I am a spacewalk user, and I would like to know if there is a way to
> export
> >> configuration channel data in the same manner software channel data is
> >> exported?
> >
> > No, exporter does not support that.
> >
> > You might want to check the APIs to see if any backup / restore
> > functionality can be built around it.
> >
> > --
> > Jan Pazdziora
> > Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> >
>
> My immediate though when I saw this post was how would (potential)
> macros in the config files be handled as these introduce 'uniqueness'
> in the files.
>
> Maybe a new API call in the configchannel namespace called
> 'getRawFile(String sessionKey, String chanLabel, String fileName)'
> returning a structure similar to 'server.config.lookupFileInfo' but
> the 'contents' would be raw?
>
> CC
>
> --
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>
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