[Spacewalk-list] Action Chains?

[Matt Moldvan]

We opted for Spacewalk last year over Katello/Foreman/Pulp/Candlepin
because of the (somewhat) simplified install process.  Overall it's still
been a big learning curve.  For us, we were thinking of setting up
Spacewalk as a platform for our Operations personnel to log in and schedule
patching for the many thousands of systems we manage.

For that reason, having a set of action chains that is abstract enough to
be reusable (e.g. schedule all security errata for group X during patch
window at timestamp blah, back end code figures out the rest) isn't
necessarily something that doesn't make sense; on the contrary it would
make a lot of sense and save a lot of time.  For smaller environments, or
if we're thinking stricly in specifics (e.g. schedule errata CESA-2016:0519
to be applied on host xyz then reboot), I agree it doesn't make sense.

With that said, the next step for us is like Maxime, to automate the update
process using the API.  Unfortunately I haven't found any examples in the
wild yet... Maxime would you be able to share any of the code or how you
implemented it?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:50 AM Maxime VEROONE <maxime.veroone at nordnet.fr>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> We, here, at first sought for action chain templates or something similar.
>
> We have then moved to automating the update process with an extensive use
> of the API.
>
>
>
> Just FYI, Satellite 6 is built around Katello, (http://www.katello.org/)
> and not Spacewalk.
>
> Katello is using puppet as a core component. I hope that answers your
> question.
>
>
>
> Maxime
>
>
>
> *De :* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *De la part de* Lachlan Musicman
> *Envoyé :* jeudi 14 avril 2016 08:19
> *À :* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Objet :* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Action Chains?
>
>
>
> Daniel,
>
> Yes, so long as you don't schedule or action them. Once you do that, they
> disappear.
>
> That section seems to be a holding zone for action chains that are "being
> built" - once the chain is run, it disappears. Would be nice to have some
> permanence - especially if pushing a new conf file from Configuration and
> you want to restart a service - on >3 machines, would be nice to automate.
>
> I guess at that point I should be using Ansible or fabric. Would just be
> nice to have everything in the same space.
>
> Does anyone know if the move to Satellite 6 will be more
> Ansible/Chef/Puppet like?
>
>
>
> cheers
>
> L.
>
>
> ------
> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
> way."
>
> - Grace Hopper
>
>
>
> On 14 April 2016 at 15:36, Daniel Eather <daniel.eather at cranegroup.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> Can you see your saved action chains in *Schedule > Action Chains* ? I
> can’t confirm as I don’t use them (yet) but the description of this page
> states “Below is a list of all Action Chains available to the current user.
> Click on a label to view or edit it.” Seems legit.
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Matt Moldvan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:35 PM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Action Chains?
>
>
>
> I don't think so, unfortunately.  If I'm wrong I'd love to hear
> otherwise... would be nice if they could be saved, shared among other
> users, etc.  But seems like they are one time use and they fly away...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:20 PM Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I just set up an action chain, and was quite chuffed with myself.
>
> After I scheduled it, it executed, and now I can't find it any more?
>
> Surely actions chains are saved for repeated use?
>
> cheers
>
> L.
>
> ------
> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
> way."
>
> - Grace Hopper
>
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