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.
Spacewalk contains a ULN plug-in for the spacewalk-repo-sync tool. The plug-in enables you to synchronize software channels without having to register the Spacewalk server with ULN.
To configure the ULN plug-in:
Change the mode of
/etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
to 600 (read-write).#
chmod 600 /etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
Edit
/etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
and add your SSO login user name and password for ULN:[main] username =
ULN_SSO_username
password =ULN_SSO_password
Change the mode of
/etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
to 400 (read-only).#
chmod 400 /etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
To protect your ULN credentials, verify that
/etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync/uln.conf
is
read-only (file mode 0400) by root
.
When you have configured the ULN plug-in, you can use either the Spacewalk web interface, spacecmd, or spacewalk-common-channels to create the Spacewalk software channels, repositories, and activation keys:
Section 2.5, “Working with Software Channels”
TipAlthough the spacewalk-common-channels command configures software channels to access the Oracle Linux yum server, you can reconfigure the repository entries to access ULN instead. For example, if you want to use the Oracle Linux
base
andpatch
channels for an Oracle Linux release update on ULN, you can reconfigure the base software channel to access thebase
channel and create an additional child channel and associated repository entry for thepatch
channel.See Section 2.3, “Configuring Software Channels to Obtain Packages from the Oracle Linux Yum Server”.
Once you have set up the software channels and repositories, download the packages by synchronizing the software channels with ULN. See Section 2.6, “Synchronizing Software Channels”.