[Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

[Jason Welsh]

On 09/13/10 11:51, Stroehmann, James wrote:
> My clients auto-register when kickstarting, you might be missing the spacewalk client tools in your package list?
>
>
> Also, one problem i was having originally was that new systems would not have the correct time on them, so i have a script in my kickstart to use rdate to update them.
>
>
> look in the root's home directory for the installation log files, post them here ... they might provide some clues.
>
> _______________

well, ive tried using the setup at 
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler (please 
correct me if this is not the right guide to follow)
the doc says to set up the "tools" distro as a child of my mail 
rhel-server directory, and someone else stated that it should be this 
way.. i.e.

rhel-server-5.5
       |
       |----VT
       |----Cluster Server
       |----Cluster Virtualization
       |---- rhel-tools <-this has the 4 packages in it. (pyOpenSSL 
rhnlib libxml2-python # spacewalk-koan)

BUT, when I goto the step that says
Select "Systems|Kickstart|Distributions" and select "+ create new 
distribution"
     "Base channel" should be "Fedora 9 with Tools"     (or rhel-tools 
in my case)

I cannot select this because its not a base channel.. its a child channel..

can someone please clear up how this is supposed to work?


Jason




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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jason at monsterjam.org [jason at monsterjam.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 11:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?
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> ok thanks, I was thinking thats what I had to do, but I was was hoping there would be something more elegant and
> built-in.
>
> Jason
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at
> 10:28:19AM -0500, Mike Hanby
> wrote:
>> This may not be the spacewalk way, but in my kickstart files I have the clients register via:
>>
>> /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://spacewalk.some.domain/XMLRPC \
>>   --activationkey=1-7777xxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Where the activation key is the appropriate one for whichever channel the client needs to join.
>>
>> I don't use Spacewalk to handle the actual kickstarting, however.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jason at monsterjam.org
>> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:39 AM
>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?
>>
>> I noticed that my clients after kickstarting are not
>> registered with the spacewalk server by default, is there a way to make kickstarted systems register with the
>> spacewalk server by default so that after they're kickstarted, I can just do a "yum install screen" or whatever?
>>
>> regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:32:50PM -0400, Jason Welsh wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/06/10 09:54, James Hogarth wrote:
>>>> Got your repos with the custom RPMs enabled in both the kickstart
>>>> (under operating system) and the activation key (under child
>>>> channels)?
>>> well, under kickstart details->operating system, i have
>>>
>>> child channels:   which lists my 2 custom channels/repos and they have a
>>> checkbox next to them.
>>>
>>> further below, I see
>>>
>>> Repositories:
>>>
>>> and i see the following :  Cluster, ClusterStorage, Workstation, VT
>>>
>>>
>>> under the activation-keys, i click on my activation key, and click
>>> "child channels",
>>> I see my 2 repos under there..
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
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