[Spacewalk-list] Migrating to a physical

[Ree, Jan-Albert van]

We did something similar earlier this year.

However to prevent issues and allow for testing we did things a bit different :


- We installed a new server on which we created all the content we needed (we used a new FQDN so we didn't have to do anything to allow for 2 servers in the same network)

- Then I wrote a migration script which installed the new certificate package and re-registered the machine to the new SW server


This allowed for more control as we did migration per server group and we would never be left with unmanaged machines in the event the migration went wrong.

Your plan to me looks solid otherwise, although before step 1 I'd shut down the spacewalk services to make sure nothing in the database gets changed.

​And you might want to clean up archived actions to make database backup / restore a bit quicker


Good luck

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Jan-Albert


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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 20:29
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Migrating to a physical


I'm migrating my SW environment from a VM to a physical.   I have the physical built, but before I move forward, I need to make sure that I'll have my steps down.  Please review my steps, and let me know if I missed anything.

  1.  Rename current SW to temporary name.
  2.  Rename physical from temporary name to actual FQDN.
  3.  Install latest version of SW (current installation was recently upgraded to 2.5).
  4.  rsync following directories:
     *   /etc/jabberd
     *   /etc/rhn
     *   /etc/sysconfig/rhn
     *   /root/ssl
     *   /var/www/html/pub
     *   /var/satellite
  5.  Backup Postgres DB from VM
  6.  Restore Postgres DB to physical

One additional comment, I am using signed cert, so I need to make sure that names and certificates are all correct, so I don't end up having issues with my current connections.

If I'm missing something, or I have something wrong, please let me know.

Thank you.

Daryl



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