John Hodrien wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Colin Coe wrote:
I'd use the activation key as well.
Have a group gets you updates, but it doesn't get you additions.
So you end up having to add package X to the activation key, and doing an
install to all machines in the group. It'd be quite nice if there was
an easy
way of doing that. Something like System Groups, Packages, Add Packages,
IYSWIM. Then you'd just have to add the package to the group, and it'd be
installed on all machines in the group and on any new members to the group.
jh
Exactly. I've got huge groups of machines where individual nodes are reinstalled often. I'd like to be able to just
assign a set of RPMS to them and not worry about what happens when someone has to reinstall a box. That's our problem
now, we have clusters of 1000 machines where typically ten or twenty may be down. We can push out a new RPM on the fly,
but the offline machines never pick it up.
I can certainly do this with a configuration management tool like cfengine, but it would be so much easier if we could
do it through Spacewalk. Also, with Spacewalk, I could assign responsibility for maintaining the RPM lists of specific
server groups to specific people.
Thanks for the responses.
Ed
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