Dear Daryl
If you make use of the nu.novell.com REPO's
It should look like this.
https://whatever:[email protected]/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP1-Pool/sle-11-x86_64
If you make Use of SuSE Customer Center and make use of new generated
URL's from your registered Systems in SuSE CUstomer Center you dont need
the nu.novell stuff anymore.
https://updates.suse.com/SUSE/Products/SLE-SERVER/12/x86_64/product?VERYLONGTOKEN
If you want to do yourself an favor, install spacecmd Shell
Creating Channels and Repos works very quick and is very comfortable.
Few month ago i've written a blog post about this task, unfortunately
its in german but it might give you an impression how it works.
http://unixhaus.de/index.php?/archives/2502-Spacewalk-Channels-auf-der-Shell-konfigurieren.html
Hope that helps to accomplish your needs.
kind regards.
Bernd Helber
On 17.07.2015 21:46, Daryl Rose wrote:
Bernd,
Thanks for the information.
I looked at doing exactly what you described, however, there is a variable in
the URL, $RCE, that I have no idea what to populate it with. Also, it appears
to me that they also pass the login credentials in the URL,
?credentials=NCCcredentials.
Do you know how to resolve those two items?
Thanks
Daryl
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:16:05 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on SuSE?
One of my Customers,
is using Spacewalk for exactly the same purpose.
Patching and Installing CentOS and SLES 11/12
What they do ist.. registering an Client to SuSE Customer Center
scc.suse.com
If the client is registered.. they activate the repository in SLES12
After the Activation the pull the newly generated REPO URls out the SLES
Instance
Create a Software Channel in Spacewalk
Create a repository in Spacewalk add the Repository to the desired
Spacewalk Software Channel.
And install the Spacewalk Agent to the SLES Machine.
In the past it was possible to get all Packages from nu.novell.com
SLES in Spacewalk have been a topic on this list you may check out those
links
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-December/msg00133.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-February/msg00057.html
Kind regards and happy weekend.
Am 17.07.15 um 18:20 schrieb Daryl Rose:
Steven,
Yes, my ultimate goal is to manage both my RHEL and SLES servers with a single
package management solution.
I have a large number of both RHEL and SLES servers. I am looking at a
server/package management system that I can manage both environments. I have
experience with previous versions of RH Satellite, and knowing that SW was the
upstream source I stood up a SW server as a Proof-of-Concept. I was able to
successfully sync both CentoOS and OpenSuSE repository's and patch demo servers.
In the past couple of months, I've had RH and SuSE demonstrations to see if
either one their products would fit with what we're looking for in a package
management system.
I was not impressed with RH Satellite 6 demo. The biggest thing that I need is
to be able to patch my servers. The person doing the demonstration couldn't
show me how to patch a system with Satellite 6. I don't remember for sure,
either he wasn't setup for it, or was prepared. I do remember that I was not
happy with the person doing the demonstration. And.....l specifically
requested patch management when I setup the demo. One thing that I do remember
about the demo was; I can only manage RHEL servers with Satellite. I can't
manage my SLES servers. I would need a separate system to manage my SLES
servers.
I had no prior experience with SuSE Manager prior to the demonstration, but I
was really impressed with the product. I learned during the demo that SW is
also the upstream source and SuSE Manager looks and acts just like SW, only a
different theme. The person doing the demonstration was prepared and showed
me exactly want I wanted to see, how to patch systems using SuSE Manger. Also
I can manage both RHEL and SLES with SuSE Manger. In order to get the RHEL
packages, I would need a Pulp server registered with RH, then sync RHEL
packages to the SuSE Manger. I successfully setup a Pulp server, and synced
the packages to my current CentOS SW server.
Now that I have functioning Pulp and SW servers I got to thinking "how would I get
the packages from SuSE?" I don't know if I can point my SW server to SuSE without
it being registered. My guess is that you can't.
SuSE Manager is a SLES server and would be registered with SuSE. I thought
that I would try putting SW on a SLES server, register it to SuSE to get the
SLES packages. I may not be able to access ALL of the SLES repositories, but
that's okay, this is just a PoC server, not an actual production server. I
would then use the Pulp server to pull down RHEL packages and sync them over to
the SW server.
<snip>.....but it is possible to use spacewalk running on Centos to manage/deploy
SLES, opensuse etc. </snip>
If this is actually possible, how would a person access the SuSE repositories
via SW on a CentOS server? If this is possible, I would like to try that. I
would be much easier than trying to compile SW from scratch on a SLES server.
Thanks
Daryl
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:56:34 +1000
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on SuSE?
Hi,
Have not stood it up on SLES but it is possible to use spacewalk running on
Centos to manage/deploy SLES, opensuse etc. Assuming that’s your end goal.
There is a bit of messing round with the kickstart/autoyast files to get them
to work and you need to modify some parts of cobbler.
Obviously this is unsupported and if you want to run it in production it may be
better to use Suse’s supported product. Unless you know what you are doing
and can deal with unexpected issues J
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Daryl Rose
Sent: Friday, 17 July 2015 4:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on SuSE?
Yes, I know that SuSE is using Spacewalk as their upstream source. I had them
do a demo for me awhile back.
How difficult is it to compile SW from source? All of the documentation is for
Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora. Has anyone else compiled it from source? What
kind of documentation is available?
Thanks
Daryl
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:15:03 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on SuSE?
Yes the guys at SuSE lol.
Seriously it the upstream project for SuSE manager so yes it can be done and
you shouldn't expect to see any SuSE specific issues; the one piece of
bad news is you should not expect the Red Hat rpms to work on SuSE so unless
someone know a SuSE specific RPM repo you may have to compile the server
components your self.
From:
Daryl Rose
Sent:
Thursday, July 16, 2015 09:55
To:
[email protected]
Reply To:
[email protected]
Subject:
[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on SuSE?
Has anyone stood up Spacewalk on SuSE?
Thanks
Daryl
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