[Spacewalk-list] Problem with activation key and kickstart

Robert Paschedag robert.paschedag at web.de
Fri Feb 26 07:00:17 UTC 2016


Hi Damien,

I think the first key is a generated key special for this kickstarted system. Just as if you would like to "reactivate" a client. But I did not yet use koan so I actually don't really know.

Regards
Robert
Am 25.02.2016 23:32 schrieb Damien Daco <dacodamien at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi list :)
>
> I've got a small problem with my activation key when kickstarting virtual machines.
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> My key, and only key, is called "1-centos6-x64". I only have that key, and it's universal.
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> However, when I provision VMs with koan, the clients automatically register to spacewalk, but they aren't properly registered to my channels/repositories.
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> When I check my kickstart file, I see something strange, there are actually TWO keys!
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> key=1-cb1705dc1caf00069d949e2cb25c88aa,1-centos6-x64
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>
> Where is this long key coming from? I can't find any mention of this key when checking the webgui.
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> When I manually register the clients with the following command:
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> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://space.intra.lab/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=1-centos6-x64
>
> ...they finally get the proper repos... but this is tedious, I wish I could understand what's wrong with the weird key in my kickstart file.
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> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>




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