[Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

Wed Jun 17 06:02:23 UTC 2015

Hello Jason,

You can add a repo in /var/www/html/pub/centos/repo for example, here you
can reach with your clients by http://SW/pub/centos/repo, so in your
script, you can do the steps below:

1. Add a local repo pointing to "public" repo in your SW
2. Install all packages necessary
3. Download the bootstrap.sh
4. Changing according your necessity and registering the client

If you have a shared key (ssh) between your servers, you can just create a
script in a NFS share for example and just execute a remote command to run
the script.

Let me know if you have any doubt about this implementation.

Take Care

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Jason Calafiore <jason.calafiore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi  All,
>
>  I still find we have not reached a solution to register a large group of
> existing servers to Spacewalk easily. I would think there must be some
> easier method than creating the yum repo, installing the packages and use
> the bootstrap scripts.
>
>
> I noticed if i just run the bootstrap.sh without installing the packages
> it shows up in Spacewalk. I was wondering is it possible to use the
> bootstrap script and then push out the required yum packages through
> spacewalk? Or has someone found an easier way to register existing offline
> clients?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Kalchik, Jeffery
> *Sent:* Friday, June 12, 2015 9:42 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* [External] Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to
> Spacewalk
>
>
>
> Good morning, Jason, et al.
>
>
>
> To register an existing server, you’ll need to install the Spacewalk
> client tools & libraries first.  That’ll extend the capabilities of yum (or
> the appropriate update manager,) to communicate with a Spacewalk service.
> Once that’s done, you’ll need to run /usr/sbin/rhn_register,
> /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks or the bootstrap script (bootstrap runs rhnreg_ks
> internally.)
>
>
>
> The registration script normally gets generated into
> /var/www/html/pub/bootstrap.
>
>
>
> The bootstrap script does perform some other activities, such as a full
> system update (through yum, zypper, etc.,) downloading SSL certs, and so
> forth.  You might want to run it, you also might want to manually register
> your clients, depending on your local requirements.
>
>
>
> Jeff Kalchik
>
> Systems Engineering
>
> Land O’Lakes
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [
> mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>] *On Behalf Of *Jason Calafiore
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:55 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk
>
>
>
> Hi Marino,
>
>  I have add the spacewalk repo as a child for my base channels, but I am
> dealing with the initial implementation of spacewalk in
> my existing environment, so I don't understand how kickstart would be
> applicable.
>
>
>
> Can you explain a little more about the registration script? Where is it
> exactly and how could i modify it as you are suggesting to register
> existing servers?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> I always include the spacewalk clients in a child repo of my base channels
> then include it in my kickstarts. Then I can view the kickstart and pick
> out the URI‎ yum has an option to install using an adhock yumrepo. Also you
> may not be aware of this but spacewalk generates a boilerplate registration
> script for you in the public directory for apache you can use as a template
> to modify into your own custom registration script.
>
> Additionally yum and the rpm command can install packages over a network
> by specifying the URI as the package name.
>
>
>
> *From: *Jason Calafiore
>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, June 10, 2015 17:51
>
> *To: *spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>
> *Reply To: *spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>
> *Subject: *[Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>  I am trying to figure out a an easy to register servers that are already
> created and offline without have to reach out to the internet to get the
> necessary packages.
>
>
>
> The only way I could do this was to do the following below by creating a
> yum repo with the necessary packages and then on a client server configure
> a .repo file that get the necessary packages.
>
>
>
> Is there any easier way to do this? I would think spacewalk would have an
> easy way to register clients especially offline servers. I had asked this
> before and someone suggested a scripts on github, but couldn't figure it
> out.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
> Create Local Repo on the spacewalk Server
>
>
>
> mkdir /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client
>
>
>
> cd /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client
>
>
>
> repotrack -a x86_64 -p /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client rhn-client-tools
> rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin
>
>
>
> rm *i686* -f
>
>
>
> wget
> http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.3-client/RHEL/7/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-2.3-2.el7.noarch.rpm
>
> wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
>
>
>
> creapterepo /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client
>
>
>
>
>
> Register Server to Spacewalk
>
>
>
> vi/etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-local.repo
>
>
>
> [spacewalk-local-install-repo]
>
> name=Spacewalk Client Install
>
> baseurl=http://spacewalk-server.com/pub/spacewalk-client
>
> gpgcheck=0
>
> gpgkey=
>
> enabled=1
>
>
>
> Disable other repos in /yum.repos.d
>
>
>
> yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto
> yum-rhn-plugin
>
>
>
> # rpm -Uvh
> http://spacewalk-server.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> <http://ghslspacewalk.ds.src.bah.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>   rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk-server.com/XMLRPC
> --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> --activationkey=1-centos-server-7
> <https://spacewalk-server.com/XMLRPC--sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT--activationkey=1-centos-server-7>
>
>
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