[Spacewalk-list] Adding system to Spacewalk

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:08 AM, William H. ten Bensel <WHTENBEN at up.com> wrote:
> Hopefully this will assist, a shot in the dark...  Most of the following is
> from a kickstart.  The !! comments and actions are additional steps that may
> or may not be needed.
>
> Try reinstalling the following on the client side.
>
> # below pkgs needed for rhn registration and configuration management
> rhn-check
> rhnsd
> rhn-setup
> rhn-client-tools
> yum-rhn-plugin
> libidn
> rhncfg
> rhncfg-client
> rhncfg-actions
> libxml2
> pyOpenSSL
> libxml2-python
> rhnlib
> perl
>
> When using a kickstart, there are some additional items  that are completed
> besides installing the RPMs.
>
> mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script
> touch /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script/run
> mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/configfiles
> touch /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/configfiles/all
>
> /etc/init.d/messagebus restart
> /etc/init.d/haldaemon restart
>
> # begin Red Hat management server registration
> mkdir -p /usr/share/rhn/
> wget http://MySpacewalk.com/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT-O
> /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> perl -Xnpe 's/RHNS-CA-CERT/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT/g' -i
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/*
>
> !! This may not be needed in your case
> if [ -f /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release ]; then
>    rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
> fi
>
> key=kickstart-key,my-custom_key
> if [ -f /tmp/key ]; then
>    key=`cat /tmp/key`,$key
> fi
>
> !! Not from a kickstart..
> !! Before registering... Validate the date/time on the server.  It can cause
> failures as well.
> !!  date
> !!  service ntpd stop
> !!  ntpdate -s Myntpservers
> !!  service ntpd start
>
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://MySpacewalk.com/XMLRPC
> --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=$key
>
> # end Red Hat management server registration
>
> # end cobbler snippet
>
> rhn_check
>
> - Thanks and good luck
>
>

Check all the packages you listed above.. missing ones included:
rhncfg, rhncfg-client, rhncfg-actions.  Ran into issues though
following the rest of the steps:

oot at cent7-spacewalk:/usr/share/rhn$ /etc/init.d/messagebus restart
bash: /etc/init.d/messagebus: No such file or directory
root at cent7-spacewalk:/usr/share/rhn$ systemctl messagebus restart
Unknown operation 'messagebus'.
root at cent7-spacewalk:/usr/share/rhn$ mkdir -p /usr/share/rhn/
root at cent7-spacewalk:/usr/share/rhn$ wget
https://cent7-spacewalk/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT-O
/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
--2017-02-28 09:45:38--  https://cent7-spacewalk/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT-O
Resolving cent7-spacewalk (cent7-spacewalk)... 10.195.xx.xx
Connecting to cent7-spacewalk (cent7-spacewalk)|10.195.xx.xx|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify cent7-spacewalk's certificate, issued by
‘/C=US/ST=MT/L=Helena/O=Montana
Interactive/OU=Operations/CN=cent7-spacewalk’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to cent7-spacewalk insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT: Scheme missing.
root at cent7-spacewalk:/usr/share/rhn$ wget
https://cent7-spacewalk/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT-O
/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --no-check-certificate
--2017-02-28 09:45:50--  https://cent7-spacewalk/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT-O
Resolving cent7-spacewalk (cent7-spacewalk)... 10.195.xx.xx
Connecting to cent7-spacewalk (cent7-spacewalk)|10.195.xx.xx|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify cent7-spacewalk's certificate, issued by
‘/C=US/ST=MT/L=Helena/O=Montana
Interactive/OU=Operations/CN=cent7-spacewalk’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2017-02-28 09:45:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.

/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT: Scheme missing.

Now you mention running this/something as a kickstart.  I have to
mention that I have zero idea how to do that.  I'm completely green on
Spacewalk.

Thanks