[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart and Config management

[William H. ten Bensel]

*Deployed*... Does that mean activate/re-activate OR the installation of 
the rpms did not get the files OR an rhncfg-client get failed? 

Activate/re-activate should have pushed the files. 
Installation of the rpms by themselves, will not push the files. 
rhncfg-client get or a schedule through the UI, api, or spacecmd.

This are some of the options you can do in the kickstart:

1. Ensure that the rpms Avi gave are installed.

2. This has been part of our default kickstart for years.
# Per rhncfg-client documentation, the first get or deploy of files can 
fail if this file does not exist.
# The work around is either reschedule, rerun, or touch the file
touch /var/log/rhncfg-actions

3.  In a %post script, verify all of the files were deployed.
        for myconfigs in `rhncfg-client list |egrep -v 
"myspacewalk.server.domain|Config Channel" |awk '{print $3}'`; do
                rhncfg-client get $myconfigs
        done

- Thanks and good luck




From:   Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
To:     spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Date:   03/29/2016 07:19 PM
Subject:        Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart and Config management
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On 30 March 2016 at 10:43, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 30 Mar 2016, at 10:30 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> If this doesn't work, where should I look for information on why? I'm 
not seeing anything in the log files.

Post-provisioning, check that you have the following RPMs installed:

rhncfg-management
rhncfg-client
rhncfg
rhncfg-actions

And check that configuration management is allowed:

# rhn-actions-control --report
deploy is enabled
diff is enabled
upload is enabled
mtime_upload is enabled
run is enabled

If you don't have the RPMs, the rhn-actions-control won't work. If you're 
not installing the RPMs as part of the provisioning process (i.e. if 
they're not available in any channel enabled for kickstart), then the 
enabling options won't work.



Thanks Avi.

Here's the output on a machine that I *just* deployed:


[root at vmpr-res-head-node ~]# rpm -qa | grep rhncfg
rhncfg-5.10.85-1.el7.noarch
rhncfg-actions-5.10.85-1.el7.noarch
rhncfg-client-5.10.85-1.el7.noarch
rhncfg-management-5.10.85-1.el7.noarch

[root at vmpr-res-head-node ~]# rhn-actions-control --report
deploy is enabled
diff is enabled
upload is enabled
mtime_upload is enabled
run is enabled


So everything looks right from that perspective. 

But, no file deployment?

Hmmm..



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way."

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Cheers,
Avi

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