Cliff wrote:
>>> Only part of Spacewalk, which use it is rhn_config_macro table, which is
>>> AFAIK used only by monitoring. Main server do not use it.
>>
>> I'm a little confused as to what the  purpose of the
>> rhn_db_environment and rhn_environment are used
>> for?

That's crucial question. It looks like nobody here knows ;).  According
to Mirek's investigation it's rudiment from old good hosted ages and it
has never been utilized by satellite.

>>> So here comes the question: Do we want to deploy Spacewalk in highly
>>> clustered environment with several databases or not? May I remove those
>>> tables in question or not?
>>> If I do not get any objection till Wednesday I will start working on the
>>> removal.
>>
>> Why wouldn't we want to have a highly clustered environment with
>> several databases?
>
> Under the do no harm to Satellite motto for changing/cleaning up  
> Spacewalk - I do know that some customers use Oracle RAQ environments  
> for external databases. Does this proposed code change break them, or  
> make it easier to use or no difference either way?

I can't imagine how this table(s) can affect Oracle RAC. So - no difference.

> Cliff
>
>> That sounds like a useful feature, is it only used by monitoring?  Can
>> we have this
>> type of environment by using configuration settings instead of a database 
>> table?

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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