[Spacewalk-list] How to test Spacewalk Proxy

Michael Mraka michael.mraka at redhat.com
Thu Jul 11 14:24:42 UTC 2013


Jon Miller wrote:
% I just completed an install of spacewalk proxy. I tried testing by
% taking a URL to a kickstart file, I know that works on my main
% spacewalk server, and changed the host to my proxy. I get the
% following entries in /var/log/rhn/rhn_proxy_broker.log:
% 2013/07/05 15:07:00 -07:00 15525 0.0.0.0:
% proxy/apacheServer.__call__('New request, component proxy.broker',)
% 2013/07/05 15:07:00 -07:00 15525 129.46.72.178: broker/rhnBroker.handler
% 2013/07/05 15:07:00 -07:00 15525 129.46.72.178: proxy/rhnShared._serverCommo
% 2013/07/05 15:09:00 -07:00 15525 129.46.72.178:
% proxy/apacheHandler.cleanupHandler
% 
% The webpage eventually returns and provides the following error:
% XML Parsing Error: no element found
% Location: http://spacewalk-dmz.example.com/ks/cfg/org/3/label/base
% Line Number 1, Column 1:
% 
% I have verified that my firewall is allowing ports 80, 443, 5269 via
% some telnet tests.
% 
% Here is what squid is seeing via it's access.log:
% 1373062140.709 120023 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/000 0 GET
% http://spacewalk-dmz.example.com/ks/cfg/org/3/label/base -
% DIRECT/spacewalk-dmz.example.com -
% 
% I'm not that familiar with squid but that almost reads to me like
% Squid is trying to retrieve the resource from the same dmz machine vs.
% my internal Spacewalk server. Should I be propagating the same DNS
% name in the dmz for my proxy as what I have internally?

Hi Jon,

the easiest way to test spacewlak proxy is to register a client to the
proxy.

As for DNS - if you can see proxy registered in spacewalk's webUI and it
can update itself from the spacewalk then DNS setup is OK.

% Thanks,
% Jon Miller

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat




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