The service you are looking for is when you installed katello-agent. This package includes utilities that upload the hosts package profile and enabled repositories to Katello which allow errata to be calculated.
Eric On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Edward Clay <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what software/agent/code is used to to inform > katello/foreman that a system is either up to date or needs patches (aka > erratas that apply to host) and what executes it? From what I've come up > with thus far, I perform the following task on a host and then everything > is good. But this is because puppet agent does a puppet run every 35'is > minutes. At least that's what my understanding is. > > 1. So first I create a host in foreman with the specifics/details needed > to define a specific host. > > 2. On a existing system I run these task. Rough draft of the steps I > follow to set up an existing host. > > -- install subscription manager > wget https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dgoodwin/ > subscription-manager/repo/epel-6/dgoodwin-subscription-manager-epel-6.repo > -O /etc/yum.repos.d/dgoodwin-subscription-manager-epel-6.repo > -- install katello client > yum install -y http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/3. > 2/client/el6/x86_64/katello-client-repos-latest.rpm > yum -y install katello-agent > wget --no-check-certificate https://foreman.domain.com/ > pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm > rpm -ihv ./katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm > subscription-manager register --org="myOrg" --activationkey="COS6" > > -- Install puppet > rpm -ihv https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-6.noarch.rpm > yum -y install puppet > add the following two lines just under [main] > server = foreman.domain.com > environment = production > -- puppet agent -t > -- service puppet start > -- chkconfig puppet on > > So after doing these steps i'm able to login to foreman and see weather or > not a system has outstanding erratas that need to be applied and I can > apply them. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Eric D. Helms Red Hat Engineering -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
