Thanks Eric for the quick response. is there some service that runs on the system or is it called by something? Just trying to figure out how this works without enabling the puppet service, which doesn't seem to be related. On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 20:08 -0400, Eric D Helms wrote: > 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] > m> 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-man > > ager/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. > > > > > -- Edward Clay Systems Adminstrator UK2 Group -- US Operations Phone: 1-800-222-2165 E-Mail: [email protected]
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