There are ways to get what you want from spacewalk using the rhnreg_ks command and a script that I wrote that I am currently integrating into a puppet module(hence the question about puppet). Here is the url to the script (I got tired of removing servers when rebuilt them with vmware).
https://gist.github.com/nohtyp/10331844 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Justin Edmands <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello All- >> >> >> >> My apologies if this has been covered somewhere before, but I’m trying to >> determine the best method of automating spacewalk client registration in a >> virtual environment and surprisingly enough I haven’t found much. Right >> now, we are using VMware CentOS 6 templates as base images for client >> machines. We have a handful of scripts set up to automate other tasks such >> as hostname/IP changes, but I’m not sure the best way to handle spacewalk >> registration. Has anyone set this up before that may have some experiences >> to share? >> >> >> >> I don’t think we want to go down the road of using kickstart as most of >> the configuration we need is already done on the template, unless there is >> a “light” way of using it to run simple post install scripts? And I’m >> pretty sure we can’t register the template to spacewalk otherwise we would >> have to deal with duplicate systems showing up in the inventory, or at >> least I think we would. I’m leaning towards using a template with the >> necessary packages installed but not registered to spacewalk, with a script >> in rc.local which will check to see if the machine is registered to >> spacewalk (not sure how yet) and then run the rhnreg command if not. >> Thoughts anyone? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -Jon >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> > > Hey Jon, > Nothing will be automated if going the vmware route. The only automated > way would be to use redhats virtualization software, KVM. I built a bash > program that automates the process of installation and registration. It has > the ability to register to various channels by answering questions, etc. > > Your best bet would be to just generate a simple startup script that > prompts you for input. The possibilities are endless for this kind of > method. You will build the last part of the script to remove itself from > startup only if it successfully registers. > > --Justin > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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