[Spacewalk-list] FW: redhat channel in spacewalk

Fri Dec 5 16:24:11 UTC 2014

Thank Wald,

The procedure worked so well, I was able to create and channel and also a
kickstart from the gui and also having cobble installed, the process worked
seamlessly.

Thank you so much, Please if there are other things very helpful that I can
achieve with SW, let me know.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <
waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Zinny
>
> Bellow a simple sample of how to this procedure.
>
> - log in the SW server
> - create a base channel named centos_6.5_x86-64 (name, label and summary).
> You can define according your necessity,
> - mount the dvd iso
> - access the directory which contain the rpm files
> - execute the command bellow:
> rhnpush -c centos_6.5_x86-64 --server=localhost -u <admin login> -p
> <password> *.rpm
>
> After this, your channel in SW will be populated with all packages from
> dvd.
>
> Try it in your lab!
>
> Take Care
>
> ______________
> Atenciosamente
> Waldirio
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>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Zinny <eibeagbazi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In line with the redhat repo in SW, is there a way I can use an iso image
>> or a dvd to create the channel in a home lab environment that way I can
>> spawn up instances as and when I want.
>> Please if it's possible share the procedures with me or point me to a url
>> to where I can achieve this.
>> I am new to SW, please any procedure to be shared should be well
>> explained that way I won't struggle much in achieving it.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <waldirio at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Good point Jeremy, I'll try the conf using ssl.
>>
>> Take Care
>>
>> ______________
>> Atenciosamente
>> Waldirio
>> msn: waldirio at gmail.com
>> Skype: waldirio
>> Site: www.waldirio.com.br
>> Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br
>> LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646
>> PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Jeremy Maes <jma at schaubroeck.be> wrote:
>>
>>>  No, since spacewalk 2.1 you *no longer need to use mrepo* but you can
>>> sync the RHEL channels directly with spacewalk-repo-sync.
>>>
>>> Just take a peek at the repo configuration options in the webinterface
>>> and notice that you can add SSL certs, which is what RHN uses nowadays. You
>>> can get the certs via the RHEL customer portal.
>>>
>>> More details you won't find I'm afraid. It's a nice project to get it
>>> working but I can assure you it works and once you get it up and running
>>> you'll be happy to be rid of any extra scripts/daemons/... (maybe Paul
>>> Robert Marino gave extra info in the past, just try searching the mailing
>>> list archives as he keeps repeating to everyone asking this question ;))
>>>
>>> As Waldirio also mentioned, technically as long as your spacewalk host
>>> has an RHEL subscription and all your RHEL spacewalk clients do too, you
>>> should be OK license-wise.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>> Ethan Bonick schreef op 04/12/2014 om 17:02:
>>>
>>> Just so I get this straight we need to always having a running copy
>>> subscribed to RHEL and then mirror the repo to that mahcine and then
>>> remirror to SW? That seems like a very convoluted process. Too bad we can't
>>> log into the repo's the way suse does. When I get around to it, I'll see if
>>> I can figure out a better way. Thanks guys for not making us reinvent the
>>> wheel. :)
>>>
>>>      Ethan Bonick | Information Technology
>>>
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>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <
>>> waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Daryl
>>>>
>>>>  You can follow the Jean orientation, perfect. ;-), one point is, if
>>>> you need more the one version (RHEL5, RHEL6, RHEL7 for example), you need
>>>> configure 3 VM's :-)), because your rhel machine will be subscribed just in
>>>> one base channel.
>>>>
>>>>  If you know how to configure multiples channel in the same OS please
>>>> share us!
>>>>
>>>>  B'Regards
>>>>
>>>>  ______________
>>>> Atenciosamente
>>>> Waldirio
>>>> msn: waldirio at gmail.com
>>>> Skype: waldirio
>>>> Site: www.waldirio.com.br
>>>> Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br
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>>>> PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html
>>>>
>>>>   On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Waldirio,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I do have RHEL subscriptions, but I'm not ready to set this up just
>>>>> yet.  I'll probably look into it more after the first of the year, so I may
>>>>> ask follow up question's on how to configure SW for RHN.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Daryl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>>> From: waldirio at gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 12:01:13 -0200
>>>>>
>>>>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] FW: redhat channel in spacewalk
>>>>>
>>>>> Daryl
>>>>>
>>>>>  Happy for help. About SW support RHEL, in theory is not supported
>>>>> (so this is a RHN Satellite feature), although technically you can add.
>>>>> About be in compliance, since you share rpm packages to your rhel
>>>>> environment, but to all RHEL's that you have subscription, no problem. What
>>>>> you CANNOT do is, you have 1 rhel subscription, use this account to
>>>>> download rpm files and have 100 rhels registered in your SW receiving
>>>>> packages and updates.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Ps.: I checked this with redhat a long time ago, would be grateful
>>>>> if our Red Hatters friends tell us something about it.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Downloading rpm from redhat, the process is the same, you can
>>>>> configure a local repo and sync them or if you download a rpm package, you
>>>>> can send to channel via rhnpush.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Let me know if you have additional doubts.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Take Care
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  ______________
>>>>> Atenciosamente
>>>>> Waldirio
>>>>> msn: waldirio at gmail.com
>>>>> Skype: waldirio
>>>>> Site: www.waldirio.com.br
>>>>> Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br
>>>>> LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646
>>>>> PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Waldirio,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thank you for the explanation. I understand your explanation.  The
>>>>> reason why I'm looking at Spacewalk is because I don't think that I can
>>>>> afford Satellite.  I'll look into the cost and see if it fits the budget or
>>>>> not.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Your final comment said that RHEL repo can also be add to Spacewalk,
>>>>> but the documentation say's that SW cannot be used with RHEL repo.  Can you
>>>>> please point me to the older posts that show how to add the RHEL repo?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>  Daryl
>>>>>
>>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>>> From: waldirio at gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 20:09:29 -0200
>>>>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] FW: redhat channel in spacewalk
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Daryl
>>>>>
>>>>>  Spacewalk is the RHN Satellite Project, so using Spacewalk you don't
>>>>> have support, updates, etc
>>>>>
>>>>>  RHN Satellite is a enterprise product, with support, updates, etc
>>>>>
>>>>>  When you buy the RHN Satellite Subscription, you can buy a "full
>>>>> version" or started pack, full version is, if you have 10 RHEL's, the
>>>>> certificate generated will come with 10 subscriptions, if you have 1k, your
>>>>> subscription will come with 1k subscriptions. There are details about
>>>>> unlimited guests, but we will not talk about it now.
>>>>>
>>>>>  When you install SW, you have a certificate to 20k servers,
>>>>> according bellow:
>>>>>
>>>>>  ###
>>>>>  <rhn-cert version="0.1">
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="product">SPACEWALK-001</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="owner">Spacewalk Default
>>>>> Organization</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="issued">2007-07-13 00:00:00</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="expires">2018-07-13 00:00:00</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="slots">20000</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="monitoring-slots">20000</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="provisioning-slots">20000</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="virtualization_host">20000</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field
>>>>> name="virtualization_host_platform">20000</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="satellite-version">spacewalk</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-field name="generation">2</rhn-cert-field>
>>>>>   <rhn-cert-signature>
>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>> Version: GnuPG v1
>>>>>
>>>>>  iEYEABECAAYFAlNg/40ACgkQnnKdrwaUeTIXqwCgmRiTmzFuO7x3bitYPWcJFsZe
>>>>> UPgAn0kTzWo7xUGDpedM0No9nEnWa84P
>>>>> =FTXc
>>>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>> </rhn-cert-signature>
>>>>>  ###
>>>>>
>>>>>  So, to conclude, if you have the opportunity to use RHN Satellite,
>>>>> you can do this, and add another OS's as repo. Pay attention, each server
>>>>> that you add in RHN Satellite, will user a Smart Management addon.
>>>>>
>>>>>  If not, don't worry, you can add rhel repo, according various older
>>>>> posts.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Let me know if the answer is satisfactory! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>  Take Care
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  ______________
>>>>> Atenciosamente
>>>>> Waldirio
>>>>> msn: waldirio at gmail.com
>>>>> Skype: waldirio
>>>>> Site: www.waldirio.com.br
>>>>> Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br
>>>>> LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646
>>>>> PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html
>>>>>
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