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Spacewalk for Oracle® Linux

Installation Guide for Release 2.4

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E71077-08

November 2019

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Installing and Upgrading Spacewalk Servers

1.1 Oracle Linux Requirements

1.2 Storage Requirements for a Spacewalk Server

1.3 Database Requirements

1.3.1 Oracle Database Requirements
1.3.2 Oracle Database Configuration

1.4 Networking Requirements

1.5 Installing a Spacewalk Server

1.6 Upgrading a Spacewalk Server

1.7 Troubleshooting Spacewalk Server Problems

1.7.1 Managing Spacewalk Logging
1.7.2 osa-dispatcher Reports a Certificate Verification Failure
1.7.3 osa-dispatcher Reports an Invalid Password
1.7.4 Tomcat Does Not Start
1.7.5 Tomcat Runs Out of Memory

2 Installing and Upgrading Spacewalk Proxies

2.1 Spacewalk Proxy Requirements

2.2 Storage Requirements

2.3 Networking Requirements

2.4 Installing a Spacewalk Proxy

2.5 Upgrading a Spacewalk Proxy

2.6 Troubleshooting Spacewalk Proxy Installation Problems

2.6.1 Clearing the Proxy Cache

3 Replacing SSL Certificates on Spacewalk Servers or Spacewalk Proxies

4 Configuring Inter-Server Synchronization

4.1 Enabling or Disabling Slave Synchronization Support for a Spacewalk Server
4.2 Configuring Master and Slave Spacewalk Servers With the spacewalk-sync-setup Command
4.3 Configuring a Master Spacewalk Server by Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
4.4 Configuring a Slave Spacewalk Server by Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
4.5 Mapping a Local Organization to an Exported Organization by Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
4.6 Synchronizing Software Channels on a Slave Server