Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
Yes, it’s certainly given me something to think about.

Thanks everyone.

Phil

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Behalf Of waldi...@gmail.com
Sent: 27 November 2018 14:40
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Yay

A lot of great information to you! :-)

I believe now you are good to go.

__
Best
Waldirio
Skype: waldirio
Site: www.waldirio.com.br
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:28 AM William Hongach 
mailto:william.hong...@marist.edu>> wrote:
Hi Jeff,

Yes, it is a two-step process but it is a workaround to the Spacewalk server 
not having the subscription to other distributions (or even major releases).  
For example, if your Spacewalk server is RHEL 7, and you want to download/push 
RHEL 6 packages using a local machine you can script the following:

Download:
Create a local directory
reposync –n –repoid=rhel-6-server-rpms
reposync –n –repod=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms

Push:
rhnpush –v –channel=$CHANNEL –server=http://$SERVER/APP –dir=./local-dir

My cron job runs this monthly since that is the anticipated patch frequencey 
for our test and dev servers.  While our software channels are created ahead of 
time, you can script creation of these channels before the push as well, using 
the “spacecmd softwarechannel_create” command.

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of Irwin, Jeffrey
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:09 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


​HTH,

That sounds better than my solution by far.  Well, same solution but more 
streamlined.  So you do a reposync using a script, then use rhnpush to push to 
satellite?  Is that right?



Jeff




From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of William Hongach 
mailto:william.hong...@marist.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:03 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Phil,

I use Spacewalk to centrally manage multiple distributions and different major 
releases within each distribution, as you are seeking to accomplish.  
Understanding that the Linux server running Spacewalk would not have access to 
all of the different proprietary subscriptions, this was achieved by setting up 
repository download servers for each distribution/release that required a 
separate subscription.  Updates are downloaded by a scripted cron job on each 
local repo server and pushed to the central Spacewalk server using rhnpush.

To script update downloads on a local repo server, the reposync command can be 
used for RHEL, the smt-mirror command can be used for SUSE, etc.  With this 
method, you do not need to worry about URLs.  You can download repositories by 
their ID/name.

HTH.

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:17 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with 
installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can 
you just clarify/confirm what URL’s you’ve configured for the RHEL 6/7 
repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any 
sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of 
jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com
Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


From: 
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mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>>
Sent: Monday,

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Ubuntu kickstarts

2018-11-27 Thread Raymond Setchfield 
Hi All,

Its been a while now that ubutnu has had kickstart capability, I was
wondering if there is any upgrade as to when spacewalk will allow you to do
ubuntu kickstarts without having to fudge a fix for it?

Thanks

Ray
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Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro 
Yay

A lot of great information to you! :-)

I believe now you are good to go.

__
Best
Waldirio
Skype: waldirio
Site: www.waldirio.com.br
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:28 AM William Hongach 
wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
>
>
> Yes, it is a two-step process but it is a workaround to the Spacewalk
> server not having the subscription to other distributions (or even major
> releases).  For example, if your Spacewalk server is RHEL 7, and you want
> to download/push RHEL 6 packages using a local machine you can script the
> following:
>
>
>
> Download:
>
> Create a local directory
>
> reposync –n –repoid=rhel-6-server-rpms
>
> reposync –n –repod=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
>
>
>
> Push:
>
> rhnpush –v –channel=$CHANNEL –server=http://$SERVER/APP –dir=./local-dir
>
>
>
> My cron job runs this monthly since that is the anticipated patch
> frequencey for our test and dev servers.  While our software channels are
> created ahead of time, you can script creation of these channels before the
> push as well, using the “spacecmd softwarechannel_create” command.
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> *On Behalf Of *Irwin, Jeffrey
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:09 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL
> 6/7 Servers
>
>
>
> ​HTH,
>
> That sounds better than my solution by far.  Well, same solution but more
> streamlined.  So you do a reposync using a script, then use rhnpush to push
> to satellite?  Is that right?
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
> --
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> on behalf of William Hongach <
> william.hong...@marist.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:03 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL
> 6/7 Servers
>
>
>
> Hi Phil,
>
>
>
> I use Spacewalk to centrally manage multiple distributions and different
> major releases within each distribution, as you are seeking to accomplish.
> Understanding that the Linux server running Spacewalk would not have access
> to all of the different proprietary subscriptions, this was achieved by
> setting up repository download servers for each distribution/release that
> required a separate subscription.  Updates are downloaded by a scripted
> cron job on each local repo server and pushed to the central Spacewalk
> server using rhnpush.
>
>
>
> To script update downloads on a local repo server, the reposync command
> can be used for RHEL, the smt-mirror command can be used for SUSE, etc.
> With this method, you do not need to worry about URLs.  You can download
> repositories by their ID/name.
>
>
>
> HTH.
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> *On Behalf Of *p.cook...@bham.ac.uk
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:17 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL
> 6/7 Servers
>
>
>
> Hi Jeffrey
>
>
>
> Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting
> with installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server
> then? Can you just clarify/confirm what URL’s you’ve configured for the
> RHEL 6/7 repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take
> out any sensitive information)?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> *On Behalf Of *
> jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com
> *Sent:* 26 November 2018 19:58
> *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL
> 6/7 Servers
>
>
>
> I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a
> local repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That
> way i have the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up
> the channels and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6
> was pointed to my local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7
> patches into spacewalk.
> --
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk <
> p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7
> Servers
>
>
>
> Good afternoon
>
>
>
> I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised
> patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are
> about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the
> Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by
> installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added
> channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread William Hongach 
Hi Jeff,

Yes, it is a two-step process but it is a workaround to the Spacewalk server 
not having the subscription to other distributions (or even major releases).  
For example, if your Spacewalk server is RHEL 7, and you want to download/push 
RHEL 6 packages using a local machine you can script the following:

Download:
Create a local directory
reposync –n –repoid=rhel-6-server-rpms
reposync –n –repod=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms

Push:
rhnpush –v –channel=$CHANNEL –server=http://$SERVER/APP –dir=./local-dir

My cron job runs this monthly since that is the anticipated patch frequencey 
for our test and dev servers.  While our software channels are created ahead of 
time, you can script creation of these channels before the push as well, using 
the “spacecmd softwarechannel_create” command.

From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  On 
Behalf Of Irwin, Jeffrey
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:09 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


​HTH,

That sounds better than my solution by far.  Well, same solution but more 
streamlined.  So you do a reposync using a script, then use rhnpush to push to 
satellite?  Is that right?



Jeff




From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of William Hongach 
mailto:william.hong...@marist.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:03 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Phil,

I use Spacewalk to centrally manage multiple distributions and different major 
releases within each distribution, as you are seeking to accomplish.  
Understanding that the Linux server running Spacewalk would not have access to 
all of the different proprietary subscriptions, this was achieved by setting up 
repository download servers for each distribution/release that required a 
separate subscription.  Updates are downloaded by a scripted cron job on each 
local repo server and pushed to the central Spacewalk server using rhnpush.

To script update downloads on a local repo server, the reposync command can be 
used for RHEL, the smt-mirror command can be used for SUSE, etc.  With this 
method, you do not need to worry about URLs.  You can download repositories by 
their ID/name.

HTH.

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:17 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with 
installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can 
you just clarify/confirm what URL’s you’ve configured for the RHEL 6/7 
repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any 
sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of 
jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com
Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised 
patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are 
about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the 
Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by 
installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added 
channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test 
client systems.
However, I can’t seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 
systems

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread Irwin, Jeffrey 
RHEL 6 (my mirror repo) pulling from RH


[rhel-6-server-rpms]
metadata_expire = 86400
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/3922910052842520258.pem
baseurl = 
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/$releasever/$basearch/os
ui_repoid_vars = releasever basearch
sslverify = 1
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (RPMs)
sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/3922910052842520258-key.pem
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled = 1
sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
gpgcheck = 1

Spacewalk pulling from mirror (above)
[rhel-6-server-rpms]
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (RPMs)
baseurl = https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/rhel-6-server-rpms/
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release


RHEL 7

[rhel-7-server-rpms]
metadata_expire = 86400
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/redhat.pem
baseurl = 
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/$basearch/os
ui_repoid_vars = releasever basearch
sslverify = 1
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server (RPMs)
sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/redhat-key.pem
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled = 1
sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
gpgcheck = 1



​





From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  on 
behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:16 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with 
installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can 
you just clarify/confirm what URL’s you’ve configured for the RHEL 6/7 
repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any 
sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  On 
Behalf Of jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com
Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised 
patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are 
about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the 
Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by 
installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added 
channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test 
client systems.
However, I can’t seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 
systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and 
Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to 
synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I’ve seen 
some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to 
using “mrepo” but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, 
has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning 
capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread Irwin, Jeffrey 
​HTH,

That sounds better than my solution by far.  Well, same solution but more 
streamlined.  So you do a reposync using a script, then use rhnpush to push to 
satellite?  Is that right?


Jeff



From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  on 
behalf of William Hongach 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:03 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Phil,

I use Spacewalk to centrally manage multiple distributions and different major 
releases within each distribution, as you are seeking to accomplish.  
Understanding that the Linux server running Spacewalk would not have access to 
all of the different proprietary subscriptions, this was achieved by setting up 
repository download servers for each distribution/release that required a 
separate subscription.  Updates are downloaded by a scripted cron job on each 
local repo server and pushed to the central Spacewalk server using rhnpush.

To script update downloads on a local repo server, the reposync command can be 
used for RHEL, the smt-mirror command can be used for SUSE, etc.  With this 
method, you do not need to worry about URLs.  You can download repositories by 
their ID/name.

HTH.

From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  On 
Behalf Of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:17 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with 
installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can 
you just clarify/confirm what URL’s you’ve configured for the RHEL 6/7 
repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any 
sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of 
jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com
Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised 
patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are 
about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the 
Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by 
installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added 
channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test 
client systems.
However, I can’t seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 
systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and 
Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to 
synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I’ve seen 
some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to 
using “mrepo” but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, 
has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning 
capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread William Hongach 
Hi Phil,

I use Spacewalk to centrally manage multiple distributions and different major 
releases within each distribution, as you are seeking to accomplish.  
Understanding that the Linux server running Spacewalk would not have access to 
all of the different proprietary subscriptions, this was achieved by setting up 
repository download servers for each distribution/release that required a 
separate subscription.  Updates are downloaded by a scripted cron job on each 
local repo server and pushed to the central Spacewalk server using rhnpush.

To script update downloads on a local repo server, the reposync command can be 
used for RHEL, the smt-mirror command can be used for SUSE, etc.  With this 
method, you do not need to worry about URLs.  You can download repositories by 
their ID/name.

HTH.

From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  On 
Behalf Of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:17 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with 
installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can 
you just clarify/confirm what URL's you've configured for the RHEL 6/7 
repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any 
sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

From: 
spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com 
mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
On Behalf Of 
jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com
Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


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To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I'm currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised 
patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are 
about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I'm starting with the 
Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by 
installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I've added 
channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test 
client systems.
However, I can't seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 
systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and 
Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to 
synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I've seen 
some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to 
using "mrepo" but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, 
has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning 
capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for your reply. It seems I would have been better off by starting with 
installing Spacewalk on a RHEL 7 server rather than an OL 7 server then? Can 
you just clarify/confirm what URL's you've configured for the RHEL 6/7 
repositories please (obviously, for the RHEL 6 local, just take out any 
sensitive information)?

Regards
Phil

From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com  On 
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Sent: 26 November 2018 19:58
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers


I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


From: 
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mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I'm currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised 
patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are 
about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I'm starting with the 
Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by 
installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I've added 
channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test 
client systems.
However, I can't seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 
systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and 
Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to 
synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I've seen 
some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to 
using "mrepo" but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, 
has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning 
capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

2018-11-27 Thread p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
Hi Waldirio

Thanks for your response and I’ll take a look at those links. I didn’t think 
there would be any problem patching  RHEL servers with Satellite, as that was 
exactly what it was designed to do, but have you had any success with using the 
same system to patch Oracle 6/7 systems as well – as I’m trying to establish a 
single centralised system capable of doing both? I’m thinking that it probably 
can but Red Hat just wouldn’t support that element?

Regards
Phil

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Sent: 27 November 2018 01:18
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 
Servers

Hello Phil

Yeap, this is the diff between the Product (Red Hat Satellite) and Upstream 
(Spacewalk), basically, on Satellite everything will be automatically and will 
sync packages and erratas. When using SW you have to do this work manually 
*implementing some way to download/push to your SW server*.

There are diff ways to do this implementation, and I really recommend you to 
take a look in the list archives [1]. I wrote this book [2] with all SW 
workflow, unfortunately, I didn't add a way to sync Red Hat repos.

Hope this helps.
__
Best
Waldirio
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Site: www.waldirio.com.br
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio

[1]. https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/
[2]. 
https://www.amazon.com/Spacewalk-Satellite-Project-solution-management-ebook/dp/B071DDQ4W2

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:58 AM Irwin, Jeffrey 
mailto:jeffrey.ir...@rivertechllc.com>> wrote:

I have been able to do this by building a rhel 6 server and creating a local 
repo mirror.  I then created a rhel 7 and installed spacewalk.  That way i have 
the entitlements for rhel 6 and 7 covered.  From there, I set up the channels 
and pointed the rhel 7 to the redhat network, and the rhel 6 was pointed to my 
local repo server.  I can now get all the rhel 6 and 7 patches into spacewalk.


From: 
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mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> 
on behalf of p.cook...@bham.ac.uk 
mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:20 AM
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

Good afternoon

I’m currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised 
patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are 
about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I’m starting with the 
Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by 
installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I’ve added 
channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test 
client systems.
However, I can’t seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 
systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and 
Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to 
synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I’ve seen 
some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to 
using “mrepo” but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, 
has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning 
capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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