[Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL clients registered to Spacewalk

[Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro]

Ok

I'll talk from Red Hat, you will be in compliance using SW to
distribute your packages (attention only in the subscription
quantity).

About packages, you can distribute for example in your SW softwares
from vmware, zabbix, epel, etc, so the Red Hat company will not
support you in 3d packages or in modified packages. This is the point.

Imagine, you install the vmware tools and would like support in that
package, the red hat will not support you, even though, if you need
support in the OS, will be the same support as before install 3d
softwares.

Let me know if was clear.
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Jason Calafiore
<jason.calafiore at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Waldirio,
>
>  Actually my question is not about Licensing, it's really about Vendor
> Support. For Licensing we do not have any issues.
>
> I am more concerned about using 3rd party packages here. I'd like to know if
> anyone who gets support from RedHat, Novell, Canonical, etc, if they use
> spacewalk to manage their servers, do they ever run into an issue where a
> package conflicts from the vendor causing a support issue?
>
> I am overall trying to understand the risks associated with using Spacewalk
> in terms of Support Agreements.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro
> <waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Jason,
>
>>
>
>> About your first question, I'm not sure about SLES, btw if you have 10
>
>> subscriptions or licenses (i don't know if SLES subscribe as license)
>
>> and download the packages to update only 10 servers, you are in
>
>> compliance, if you download from site or use another automated system
>
>> to do it, doesn't matter but if you have 10 subscriptions and are
>
>> updating 11 servers, you are not compliance, will be necessary by +1
>
>> subscription or license.
>
>>
>
>> Imagine the scenario, 10 subscription and 100 servers! This is the
>> problem.
>
>>
>
>> Check with your sales vendor, they will give you the correct answer
>
>> for your scenario.
>
>>
>
>> Take Care
>
>> ______________
>
>> Atenciosamente
>
>> Waldirio
>
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>
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>
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>>
>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Jason Calafiore
>
>> <jason.calafiore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Hi All,
>
>>>  As I am testing spacewalk in our environment which includes SLES and
>
>>> RHEL, I came to some questions regarding the risks we face with
>
>>> regard to support which I hope the community could assist me with.
>
>>>
>
>>> 1. Does anyone currently use Spacewalk to manage SLES or RHEL servers
>
>>> in their environment. Have you encountered any issues where it
>
>>> invalidated your support?
>
>>>
>
>>> 2. According to SuSE/Novell Support they mentioned to me that
>
>>> Spacewalk is not a supported tool to download & manage packages, so
>
>>> essentially it would invalidate the support. This would be true even
>
>>> if i used SMT to download the package and push them into Spacewalk.
>
>>> On the other hand they would try to still provide support, but if in
>
>>> the case that we install 3rd party RPM's that is the cause of issue, they
>>> would not be able to support the system.
>
>>> Does anyone know what specific packages & dependencies would be
>
>>> installed or modified?
>
>>>
>
>>> 3. I only see steps to register OpenSuSE clients and not SLES on this
>
>>> page https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients Are
>
>>> there steps for SLES?
>
>>>
>
>>> 4. Is there a way to register a SLES server to Spacewalk without
>
>>> getting packages from openSuSE?
>
>>>
>
>>> Thank you,
>
>>> Jason
>
>>>
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