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Hi,

Hope you all are doing good.

I have recently installed spacewalk on RHEL 7.6 as server configuration 
management tool. I have few doubts as follows:


  1.  Could you please let me know how Spacewalk pushes packages to the clients?
a.       Does Spacewalk store the packages on the Spacewalk server and push 
these packages to Client?  The default is to setup a software repository  so 
that packages can be pulled from the spacewalk server.

OR
b.      Does Spacewalk send the command to the client servers and client 
servers will then reach out to internet and download the packages?  This 
depends on your setup, you can enable 
OSAD<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-2JLN0LHhAhUu2FkKHTiQAbIQFjAAegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fspacewalkproject%2Fspacewalk%2Fwiki%2FOsadHowTo&usg=AOvVaw3nli6m6b8TG4JwyRQeymfF>
 to change how and how often the spacewalk server contacts the clients and 
perform various management operations (to include patch management, 
configuration, and etc.).


  1.  Does Spacewalk support Primary/secondary site (Microsoft SCCM 
Architecture) for package redistribution to clients. i.e. If I have a remote 
Datacenter, instead of pushing packages to individual clients, can we have a 
Spacewalk secondary site that will get the package from master and redistribute 
the packages to clients locally?  Yes, you can configure multiple spacewalk 
servers (i.e. you can have a single master (primary) spacewalk server with 
several spacewalk proxies that reach out to several different client 
environments).  A good reference resource 
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E92593_01/E85211/html/swk24-arch.html



  1.  I see that scheduled activities (like reboot, patching, etc) are taking a 
lot of time (1.30 hours delay) and crosses the scheduled window. However, I see 
that as a workaround when I run "rhn_check" command on the client manually, 
deployment status on Spacewalk changes to succeeded. .  That's because of how 
your initial setup is configured, if you want faster response to queued jobs 
then look into option (1.b), otherwise check taskomatic to make certain that 
you don't have queued jobs causing delays and setup a cron on the client to 
complete queued jobs (from the spacewalk server).  
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-January/msg00173.html




Thanks!

Regards,
Debayan Mukherjee


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