Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
Just for my own confirmation, does that mean that the command satellite-sync is for all intents and purposes useless in spacewalk?

Regards

For spacewalk, you should be able to satellite sync content from an exporter mount point. So say you have a channel created and push a bunch of content to it.Not instead of repeating the same steps on other servers, you could export the existing channel from the spacewalk server suing rhn-satellite-exporter,

$ rhn-satellite-exporter --dir /my-channel -c test-channel

and sync this back to another spacewalk server,

$ satellite-sync -c test-channel -m /my-channel

So the only difference is satellite sync is not talking directly to RHN, instead used locally.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,
~ Prad


On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Moises Rivera
    <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    >  I have a customer that need the installation of the RHN
    Satellite. I try
    > with SpaceWalk, because, I dont have any experience with this
    product.

    The installation procedures for RHN Satellite and Spacewalk are a
    little bit different. In Satellite, you download the ISO (either with
    the embedded database or external database), and there is an installer
    script that takes care of everything for you, from installing the
    packages, setting up the database, generating the CA, etc.  The
    installation of Spacewalk is significantly more manual (though still
    very doable)

    >  After a lot ot problems with the PGP keys, packages
    installations and more,
    > finally I installed spacewalk (yuju!!!!). But.... and now? :)
    Today I can
    > connect to the spacewalk - internal - web, but I dont know the
    next steps in
    > the configuration.

    Again, Spacewalk and Satellite differ significantly here. With
    Spacewalk, you're fully responsible for creating all of your custom
    content, pushing content into channels, etc. With Satellite, if you're
    running a connected Satellite, you simply type 'satellite-sync
    --list-channels' and it will connect to RHN and show you the channels
    that you are entitled to. Then you type 'satellite-sync -c <channel
    labels>' and it will start pulling down all of that content from RHN
    hosted.

    >  I dont know if I must create a Channel, if I nedd a certificate
    - in the
    > FAQ say that spacewalk use a certificate, but it say that
    spacewalk not use
    > it -.....

    Yes, in Spacewalk you need to create channels. In Satellite, the
    channel creation of Red Hat channels will be taken care of by the
    commands that I listed above, however, you will still need to create
    whatever custom channels you require and push content to them using
    rhnpush.

    As for the certificate, both use an entitlement certificate, the
    difference is where you get it.  For Satellite, you'll have to get one
    from Red Hat customer service, it specifies what channel entitlements
    you have and how many, as well as any add-on entitlements that you may
    have purchased (provisioning, monitoring). A cert comes by default in
    Spacewalk, containing 20,000 entitlements for everything (and
    instructions on how to generate one for more if you need).

    I hope that helped.

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