[Spacewalk-list] Way to remove stale system entries?

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 07/22/2011 08:02 PM, Jose_De_La_Rosa at dell.com wrote:
> Is there a script (supported or otherwise) to remove stale system
> entries from a spacewalk/RHN server?
>
> Say I have a testing environment with limited RHEL entitlements, and
> people are constantly registering servers, do what they need to do, and
> then re-image the server or shut it down and move on to something else
> without manually removing the system entry from RHN before moving on.
> These stale entries not only populate the database needlessly, but also
> take up an entitlement.
>
> Would be great if I could run a nightly cron job where server entries
> that have not checked in for X days are removed automatically...
>
>
>
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# yum install spacewalk-utils
# delete-old-systems-interactive
Usage: delete-old-systems-interactive --idle=<idletime[w|d|h|m]> 
[--host=<host>] [--username=<username>] [--password=<password>] [--force]

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Miroslav Suchý
Red Hat Satellite Engineering