The software described in this documentation is either no longer supported or is in extended support.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade to a current supported release.
The Oracle version of Spacewalk contains ULN plug-in for the spacewalk-repo-sync tool. The plug-in enables you to synchronize ULN channels directly into Spacewalk channels without requiring the Spacewalk server to be registered with ULN.
The ULN plug-in was not included with the initial release of Spacewalk from Oracle. Depending on the configuration of your Spacewalk server, you might need to update the Spacewalk packages.
To configure the ULN plug-in, edit the
/etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
file and add login credentials for ULN. By default, this file
is read-only by root.
[main] username=<ULN SSO username>password=<ULN SSO password>
After you edit the configuration file, ensure that the file
permissions are read-only (0400) by root.
This is an important security step to protect the ULN
credentials.
Once the ULN plug-in is configured, you create the Spacewalk software channels and repositories in the normal way using the Spacewalk web interface. When you specify the URL for a ULN repository, use a URL in the following format:
uln:///<ULN channel label>
The URL must contain three forward slash
(/) characters. For example:
uln:///ol6_x86_64_latest
For example:
uln:///ol6_x86_64_latest
You can get a list of available ULN channel labels by logging in to ULN (https://linux.oracle.com) and selecting the Channels tab.