I see…

the spacewalk key will not be a self signed from it's own host ?

If not there is steps to provide a cert to the spacewalk host instead of 
generating it.

Also the host name tags are all in the RHN config folder. as far I remember 
most tools get the host from there.  

-Joe
 
On Nov 6, 2013, at 12:08 PM, "FRANK Michael" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Joe,
> 
> Due to very strong naming conventions in our datacenter I am not free to name 
> my hosts as I want. Also past experience showed us that appliactions need to 
> be moved to other platforms and need to renamed then. Also it happened two 
> times in the past three years that we had to move to a different datacenter 
> host for economic reasons. For that situation we developed the approach to 
> add an alias or better say cname record for the host or better say for the 
> application in order to simplify host name changes.
> 
> The SSL certificates is a different story because we have to use the certs 
> from a central CA in the organization. I could add the alias on the CA 
> request but currently I have no idea how to import the CA and host keys. 
> rhn-ssl-tool don't offer me to import key files from external CA as far as I 
> know. 
> 
> The hostname is used in a plenty of other configuration files like jabber, 
> cobbler etc. To have a complete list would be very helpful.
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Joe Belliveau
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. November 2013 14:33
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk use Hostname Alias instead of cname
> 
> I run my spacewalk server with Aliases.
> 
> However i would rename the host to the alias. Something that won't change 
> often.
> 
> Also why would you be renaming the host often ? Usually an update server is 
> infrastructure and that should not move often.
> 
> In the ssl build reply file just add all the aliases, like you would any 
> other certificate request. 
> 
> How I do it is I name my hosts spacewalk-ma-01,02,03 etc. then alias them 
> with a tag like cambridge , boston, worcester (Massachusetts cities 
> indicating their locations) so that the datacenter guys can easily join them 
> to the local repo. 
> 
> BTW mine are all proxy servers to the main.
> 
> I think you need to consider just aliases in the ssl cert my friend.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 8:02 AM, "FRANK Michael" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Michael,
>> 
>> With alias I meant a cname record.
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Michael Mraka
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. November 2013 13:31
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk use Hostname Alias instead of cname
>> 
>> FRANK Michael wrote:
>> % Hello community,
>> %
>> % I am a novice with spacewalk and currently on the way to setup a % 
>> productive system. To have the most flexibility we plan to use a DNS % alias 
>> for the spacewalk hostname instead of the cname. This because we % may have 
>> to move spacewalk later to a different host with a different % hostname 
>> (cname).
>> 
>> Hello Michael,
>> 
>> I don't quite understand what's a DNS alias.
>> Is it secondary A record or CNAME record?
>> 
>> % I read the doc about spacewalk-hostname-rename but there is no way to % 
>> set other host name then the cname.
>> %
>> % Does anyone has an idea how this could work?
>> %
>> % Any help is much appreciated.
>> %
>> % Many thanks for all your work.
>> %
>> % Regards
>> %
>> % Mike
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> --
>> Michael Mráka
>> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>> 
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