Miroslav, I saw the delete-systems utility, but it didn't give us all the functionality we wanted (a report by the system group that the machines exist in, multiple idle times in one run of the script, control over the line format). Perhaps a feature request to bugzilla would be in order?
Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miroslav Suchý Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Way to remove stale system entries? On 07/22/2011 08:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Is there a script (supported or otherwise) to remove stale system > entries from a spacewalk/RHN server? > > Say I have a testing environment with limited RHEL entitlements, and > people are constantly registering servers, do what they need to do, > and then re-image the server or shut it down and move on to something > else without manually removing the system entry from RHN before moving on. > These stale entries not only populate the database needlessly, but > also take up an entitlement. > > Would be great if I could run a nightly cron job where server entries > that have not checked in for X days are removed automatically... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list # yum install spacewalk-utils # delete-old-systems-interactive Usage: delete-old-systems-interactive --idle=<idletime[w|d|h|m]> [--host=<host>] [--username=<username>] [--password=<password>] [--force] -- Miroslav Suchý Red Hat Satellite Engineering _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
