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Client Life Cycle Management Guide for Release 2.4
E71078-08
November 2019
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Using the Spacewalk Web Interface and the spacecmd Command
- 2 Creating Software Channels and Repositories
- 2.1 About Channel Configuration
- 2.2 Configuring Software Channels for ULN
- 2.3 Configuring Software Channels to Obtain Packages from the Oracle Linux Yum Server
- 2.4 Working with Repositories
- 2.5 Working with Software Channels
- 2.6 Synchronizing Software Channels
- 2.7 Cloning Software Channels
- 2.8 Managing Channel Life Cycles
- 3 Creating Activation Keys
- 4 Provisioning Client Systems
- 4.1 About Kickstart Trees, Distributions, and Profiles
- 4.2 Setting up Kickstart Trees
- 4.3 Working with Kickstart Distributions
- 4.4 Working with Kickstart Profiles
- 4.5 Installing Client Systems Using Kickstart
- 4.6 Creating a Kickstart Profile in Cobbler
- 4.7 Provisioning KVM Hosts Using Spacewalk
- 4.8 Provisioning KVM Guests Using Spacewalk
- 5 Registering Client Systems
- 6 Configuring Client Systems for Remote Management
- 6.1 Enabling the OSA Daemon in a Kickstart Profile Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 6.2 Enabling the OSA Daemon in a Kickstart File
- 6.3 Enabling the OSA Daemon Manually
- 6.4 Enabling Remote Configuration in a Kickstart Profile Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 6.5 Enabling Remote Configuration in a Kickstart File
- 6.6 Enabling Remote Configuration Manually for Non-managed Client Systems
- 6.7 Enabling Remote Configuration for Non-managed Client Systems Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 7 Querying the Status of Client Systems
- 8 Configuring System Groups to Manage Client Systems
- 9 Updating Client Systems
- 9.1 Subscribing Client Systems to Software Channels Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 9.2 Subscribing Client Systems to Software Channels Using spacecmd
- 9.3 Listing and Applying Available Security Updates and Other Errata Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 9.4 Listing and Applying Available Security Updates and Other Errata Using spacecmd
- 9.5 Managing Packages for Systems Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 9.6 Managing Packages for Systems Using spacecmd
- 9.7 Managing Packages for System Groups Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 9.8 Managing Packages for System Groups Using spacecmd
- 10 Controlling and Configuring Client Systems
- 10.1 Running Command Scripts on Remote Client Systems Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 10.2 Running Command Scripts on Remote Client Systems Using spacecmd
- 10.3 Working with Scheduled Events
- 10.4 Working with Configuration Channels
- 10.4.1 Using Custom Information Keys
- 10.4.2 Defining Custom Information Keys Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 10.4.3 Defining Custom Information Keys Using spacecmd
- 10.4.4 Working with Configuration Channels Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 10.4.5 Working with Configuration Channels Using spacecmd
- 10.4.6 Subscribing Client Systems to Configuration Channels Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 10.4.7 Subscribing Client Systems to Configuration Channels Using spacecmd
- 10.4.8 Deploying Configuration Files to Client Systems Using the Spacewalk Web Interface
- 10.4.9 Deploying Configuration Files to Client Systems Using spacecmd
- 11 Performing OpenSCAP Auditing of Client Systems
- 12 Configuring Ksplice Offline Client for Client Systems
- A Kickstart Options
- B Sample Package Lists
- C Configuration File Macros
- D Spacewalk XML/RPC API